Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process
1:40 pm
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I want to know why the Department has new secrecy provisions built into the legislation going through the Dáil for PPPs. There are between €4 billion and €5 billion worth of them now. Why has the Department included in that legislation specific new provisions to exclude from freedom of information the terms and conditions of employees of the National Treasury Management Agency, the National Asset Management Agency, the National Pensions Reserve Fund and the National Development Finance Agency? That does not concur with facilitating access to official information. All this is occurring when, as we speak, the legislation in the Chamber is doing the exact opposite.
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