Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
12:30 pm
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
I cannot say that I do until I do some research on it. However, we certainly have others. There are analogous bodies that the Deputy could consider, such as the Customs House Docks Development Authority, although that is set up under a statute. With regard to the governance structure that Mr. Woods has explained, it would be similar, with similar provisions, a provision to sue and be sued, and so on. I would make a distinction with regard to a committee set up by a Minister, of which there are very many that operate without producing annual reports or financial statements. Certainly my understanding of it is that a body with a statutory basis would be quite different from a committee.