Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 May 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works

11:00 am

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I appreciate that some of these questions are for the Accounting Officer of the Department but I must put them to the Chairman because she is present. Does the OPW have any role in scrutinising the brief? Ms McGrath has stated the Department sends the brief to the OPW but what precisely does the office do with it? Does it go through it and check it is in line with everything the office is meant to provide? Does the OPW check for what people might view as being extravagance? What does the OPW do when it gets the brief?