Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My concern is that typically an audit committee does not audit itself. If half the members of the audit committee are on the board of the HSE, the board is advising itself. The Bill provides that the board may at any time remove a member of the audit committee. Perhaps I have got this wrong. Maybe the audit committee is not meant to provide independent advice or feedback to the board, but if it is meant to do so, it seems the board will be providing advice and feedback to itself.