Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process
1:40 pm
Mr. Robert Watt:
We put it in the opening remarks to have a discussion about the Estimates of the Department. There is no point having a discussion about the Estimates of the Department if we do not discuss what the Department actually does to justify the €35 million in spending. That is why we put it in. I did not necessarily want to encourage a debate on the matter since the Minister is brining it to the House, so I thought it better to keep away from it. The Bill extends freedom of information provisions dramatically and restores them to where they were in 2003.