Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances

4:00 pm

Mr. Kieran Coughlan:

The emphasis at the time was to create this transparency and that would be an external auditor rather than Members carrying out their own audit and having that done by the Revenue Commissioners. The idea of having the external audit was to put that transparency in the system and it is one of the planks of it.