Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am very conscious of the situation and the status of the ongoing inquiry. The length of time is of concern to me. These are legitimate questions and, of course, arguably, GSOC may very much be aware of them. From experience, I find that when things are reported on by the Committee of Public Accounts, that is the end of it and on we go. I am concerned that it is almost four years to the day, or just in excess of that, since we first dealt with this matter. I support the Chairman's call that we would be able to consider these questions over the course of the week and discuss them next week. The reason I was rushing to get them in was because I thought today was the last day we could discuss anything and I did not want to lose the summer before having us consider these very detailed questions. Obviously, GSOC may well come back to us, if the committee agrees to submit them, and say it will not be answering them and it is continuing with its work, or whatever. In any event, the detail of these questions can usefully be put by the committee and, perhaps, if they are published by the committee as questions of the committee, it might focus minds elsewhere to inject a little pace into a process that seems to have lacked it.

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