Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor

9:00 am

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

An issue that comes up regularly is directors on boards coming from a Department or being public interest directors. They are not public interest directors because once they go on the board, they report back. Their fiduciary duty is to the board. Is this something the office has thought about with regard to how we protect public interest generally?

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