Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage

6:00 pm

Photo of Fergus O'DowdFergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This amendment seeks to delete new section 6A(2) of the NTMA Act which provides that the chief executive of the agency when appearing before the Committee of Public Accounts may not question or express an opinion on Government or ministerial policy. This is standard procedure in respect of all such appearances. The purpose of an appearance before the Committee of Public Accounts is to account for the expenditure of the agency and the CEO appears as the officer responsible for the accounts. It is inappropriate that any chief executive would be asked to express opinions on Government policy in that context or indeed in any context. I do not propose to accept the amendment.

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