Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 January 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

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

We will come back to that. We will not discuss it any further while we are on this point, other than to say that we will come back to it. The same organisations crop up, whether the legal advisers, professional advisers or financial advisers. Sometimes a major company can provide different services to the same organisations. We will not do it today, but we might consider writing to the professional bodies, whether the Law Society, Chartered Accountants Ireland or the other accountancy bodies, to ask what procedures are in place in their institutes and client companies to ensure there is independence when different members of the same firm carry out separate projects in which they might be asked to adjudicate on a report that a colleague on the floor above had carried out a few months before.

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