Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I would not want to appear before the committee anyway and that is for sure.

In respect of the last paragraph of Mr. Watt's letter, I suppose we could be helpful to him because we do like to help out Accounting Officers. He states, "Notwithstanding the above, I will give consideration as to whether it might be appropriate to develop specific guidelines in terms of expenditure on staff hospitality such as retirement events." Perhaps that is something we could examine ourselves if we are making recommendations. He is offering us an olive branch where he is prepared to look at it, so let us help him out and offer up some potential guidelines.