Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

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

We will include a summary of many of these issues in our periodic report.

The next item on the agenda is the work programme. Today we will be dealing with the Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach in considering Vote 1 - the President's Establishment and Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach. We will meet in private session to clear some items and then resume in public session immediately after the votes at 2 p.m. to deal with the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Office of the Chief State Solicitor.

Next week we will meet the broadband providers. We will meet representatives of BT at 10 a.m., of Eir at 11 a.m., of the Regional Internet Service Providers Association at noon, of Imagine at 2.30 p.m. and of Enet at 3.30 p.m. It will be an interesting session.

In the following week, on 21 February, we will deal with financial statements for 2015 of Kildare-Wicklow ETB. I hope it will not take all day. In the afternoon session we are proposing to deal with some of the housing issues with which we are dealing concerning the interim regulatory committee of the Irish Council for Social Housing which is the approved housing body.

On 28 February in session 1 we will be back discussing housing matters. In session 2 we will deal with the remainder of the Vote for the local government fund, the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and central government funding for local authorities. Representatives of the Department of Housing will be here, together with representatives of the Housing Agency and the chief executives of a number of local authorities to discuss housing. The session will be of interest.

In the following week, on 7 March, we will deal with the accounts for which the Minister of Finance is responsible. We will deal with chapters 1, 2, 3 and 22 of the annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Exchequer outturn, the collection of pension contributions, the control of funding for voted services and the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. We will also deal with the appropriation account for Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Mr. McCarthy will let the Accounting Officer for his Department handle it.

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