Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 11 (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform) (Revised)
Vote 12 (Superannuation and Retired Allowances) (Revised)
Vote 14 (State Laboratory) (Revised)
Vote 15 (Secret Service) (Revised)
Vote 17 (Public Appointments Service) (Revised)
Vote 18 (Shared Services) (Revised)
Vote 19 (Office of the Ombudsman) (Revised)
Vote 39 (Office of Government Procurement) (Revised)
9:00 am
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
If it is an issue of accountability between my Department and another Department, the responsibility sits with me but in the operation of these things, if I want to change the reporting relationship between me and another Government Department I would have to seek the consent and agreement of the other Department to do so. I might gain its agreement but I have to have its commitment to make it work. On the accountability between an Accounting Officer and an organisation in receipt of funding from the line Department, the accountability relationship is between the Accounting Officer and the organisation but clearly any matters on taxpayers' money are of concern to my Department.
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