Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

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

On the McLoone report, we will contact the HEA and ask for an immediate response early in the week, not just next Wednesday night and we have discussed the response. We need to hear the current position early in the week.

In terms of the issue that Deputy Cullinane has raised, the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts has to stand four-square with any member who has been attacked by an Accounting Officer in public in respect of the work of the Committee of Public Accounts. I think the committee needs to write to that Accounting Officer and ask him to set out, the comments he made, in writing to this committee because it is to this committee he should be responding.

When the committee gets his letter outlining his criticism of the committee, or individual members of the committee, we will consider that. He has to man up now and put in writing to the committee what he may have said locally. I propose that in the first instance. We need to do that at this stage. I thank the Deputy for raising that because it is a difficult issue.

The next item is No. 1625 from Deputy O'Connell requesting representatives from the approved housing bodies to be present at our meeting. That is agreed. We will work it into our work schedule. We will talk about the format of that meeting as part of our work programme.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.