Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:10 am

Clerk to the Committee:

We are finalising a legal document in that regard which must go to the Committee on Procedure and Privileges. We are waiting for guidelines from the Committee on Procedure and Privileges but a legal application must go in and it must be legally proofed. It is more complex than we thought originally but it will be dealt with. We will have it finalised this week. I will brief the Chairman. We are in the hands of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges in terms of whether it gives us compellability powers. It is not as straightforward as we had anticipated originally. It is fairly complex. We need to dot our i's and cross our t's.