Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Role and Operation of National Development Finance Agency: Discussion
1:30 pm
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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That takes me back to the role as adviser. The NDFA has learned from the past and seen all of the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General and we are here now. Will it now advise that this should happen? We create the legislation, but the Minister and the Department are advised by somebody at the coalface. The NDFA is at the coalface. Will it advise them where it has gone wrong? Will it tell them that they need to change the references or the detail of contracts?