Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
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Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source
-----if everything has become so removed from us that we cannot monitor it properly.
The Secretary General mentioned an interesting initiative on page 8 of the opening statement he submitted. It states "Ireland is a member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multilateral initiative of some 70 countries that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and strengthen governance." I welcome the initiative. I believe it is very necessary to empower citizens but we disempower them by using language that they cannot understand. The opening statement provided continued by noting "A public consultation on the Implementation of Ireland’s OGP National Action Plan 2016-2018 is currently underway." The Secretary General should clarify and elaborate on that point.
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