Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 January 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

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

That is agreed. We will move on. The Committee of Public Accounts established by the 32nd Dáil has reached item No. 1850 in correspondence and this is just letters received. The volume of letters sent out to follow up on various issues is a multiple of this. This far exceeds correspondence received by all other Oireachtas committees combined since the 32nd Dáil was established. We need research staff. The staff provide fantastic administrative support but we need more. We have three sets of financial statements, two special reports from the Comptroller and Auditor General and several reports from independent commission on various colleges. It is a full-time job on its own to deal with-----

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