Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector

9:00 am

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

This year there is a new guidance on oversight of State bodies by Government Departments - the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016. We are currently examining all our interaction with our State bodies to see whether they conform to the requirements of that new guidance. It is likely that this examination will lead to some changes. The Deputy's question is very well timed in the sense that we are reviewing the matter.