Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 November 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:00 am

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is on the website. Under any other business, claims of irregular payments of expenses have been raised with this committee. The clerk recently received a protected disclosure from a former employee who raised concerns in 2012. As is normal with all protected disclosures, legal advice was sought to ensure those making the disclosure enjoy the protection of the Act. As Deputies will see from the note that has been circulated by the clerk, the advice is for the committee to await the outcome of a current investigation being conducted for the HEA into claims of irregular expenses payments. In the meantime, the records submitted with the protected disclosure can be forwarded to the Comptroller and Auditor General. We will come back to this issue when the Mazars report into the University of Limerick is available. The timeline for this is 30 November. Is that agreed? Agreed. At next week's meeting, we will focus on Bord na gCon generally. Today, we are dealing with the Office of the Minister of Public Expenditure and Reform. We will invite the witnesses in now.

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