Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Head 16 provides for the attendance of a chief executive before the Committee of Public Accounts. Head 17 provides for the attendance of a chief executive before other relevant Oireachtas committees, select or joint, to discuss the general activities of the office. The representatives of Bord na gCon and Horse Racing Ireland, HRI, for example, and all the other bodies under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, are expected to come before this committee. Should it not also have been prescribed in the proposed legislation that the chief executive and chair should appear before this committee as well?