Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised)
9:30 am
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Deputy Martin Kenny referred to the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General which comes within the Estimate for the Minister's Department. In the context of reform and the funding of the office, has the Department, with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, considered merging both audit operations to achieve greater efficiency, value for money, transparency and accountability? Is it the Minister's intention to at any stage give greater powers to the Committee of Public Accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General to conduct more forensic examinations of the spending of public money?
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