Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 December 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

He is not accountable to me today because he cannot tell me what the registration fee is. That is my question. He is accountable to me but he cannot actually be accountable because he is saying a wall has been put between us. The wall is confidentiality and commercial sensitivity. While one could argue at one level that this is about protecting the State, this is the Committee of Public Accounts, at which members put questions to Mr. McKeon about how money is spent.

I want to get to the next question.

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