Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 April 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

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

When they are in, we will deal with the Vote for An Garda Síochána. It is a separate Vote. We will deal with the Vote, specifically the Templemore issue, and the issue of resources to which we referred at a previous meeting and which was referred to in a different manner at the justice committee meeting last week. They are the three points. We will see if that can happen. We do not know yet. We will try to do our best.

Then we are on to 25 May, which is the Department of Finance. The following week is the Revenue Commissioners. That appears to take us to 1 June. I am just remembering that when we discussed this issue last week, that is, about the findings that were issued, we said we would write to the Department of Justice and Equality, the Courts Service, which has collected the fines and will know what mechanism is in place to return the money, and An Garda Síochána. We will highlight that issue, whether we deal with it all on that day or have to come back on the second day. That is strictly a financial issue in respect of fines collected from the public that possibly should not have been. That issue was already flagged here at the last meeting. We will do our best to deal with all of those issues, whether it takes a second sitting or not. It probably will. Then on 26 June, we have the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

That is where we are on the draft work programme to date. There being no other business, we will suspend for a few minutes to allow the witnesses to take their seats.

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