Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

By the end of next week all members will have the final output from the secretariat. That is the document that we will sit down, as elected members of this committee, to discuss and then we will start making our amendments to it. At that time it will become a draft report of the committee, ultimately leading to a final report fairly soon thereafter, I hope. The document that will be circulated next week is not a draft report; it is only a document that is being prepared for the committee's benefit. Are members happy with that? I do not know if I am right or wrong in saying this but if any of that document is leaked, we will have to take measures when drafting the actual draft report to make sure that it will not be widely circulated in advance of publication. I am putting members to the test in that regard. If any of the secretariat's document appears in any part of the media, we will have to sit behind closed doors. If somebody breaches the confidentiality of the committee next week, he or she will not be able to do so again when we are the drafting of the final report. Can we get agreement on that? It is not fair to the rest of the committee if one member goes off and leaks it in an effort to get a bit a kudos.

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