Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

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

Yes, so the Deputy can read its financial report and see how it is doing.

On the last item, I want to have a brief discussion on the work programme for the autumn. We want to have meetings set up for the autumn. We are back on 20 September. I think the Dáil comes back on 18 September. On 20 September, the first day back, we have agreed already that we will have NAMA representatives before the committee. It is more than 20 months since they were here so they are long overdue a visit.

In terms of the following, we agreed last week that Ms Flannelly, the former clinical director of CervicalCheck, was not able to make the meeting last week. She has indicated she will come in at a suitable time. I think that because of her key role we should take up that offer and I suggest we have the meeting on that day. We will be dealing with CervicalCheck, the Health Service Executive, HSE, and the State Claims Agency, and we will probably have further information after the summer. Essentially, that will be at the end of September but all of that is to be confirmed.

In terms of the following week, 4 October, we did not bring in representatives of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, DPER, last year. I suggest we deal with that Department. The Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report will be out at that stage so we will deal with whatever chapter is in that report dealing with DPER. Two special reports were published yesterday. We will deal with all the DPER issues as best we can.

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