Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am trying determine levels of input. We are heading down the road of an independent investigation, which I fully support. It is a very good idea to do a scoping exercise first because we simply do not have the facts. We do not have the facts because there is a complete lack of accountability in the various organisations. We have no report before us, nine days after the initial report. At the very least Deputies should have a written report outlining what happened and so on but we have nothing. Nothing has been outlined as yet.

To return to the State Claims Agency, where is the mechanism in the Department of the Taoiseach for learning in order to avoid tribunals? What mechanism exists to ensure that taoisigh can go into the Dáil fully informed?

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