Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 September 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We have a reply from the Department of Finance on staffing arrangements, further to that meeting. Separately, we have received a very strong letter from the OPW expressing dissatisfaction with what was said here. Representatives of the OPW are due before us in two weeks' time so we will ask them about their interactions with the Tax Appeals Commission. As I have said, there is a letter from the Department of Finance dealing with the staffing arrangements and when we come to that, we will take it into account. We will note and publish this correspondence for now, bearing in mind that there is further correspondence relating to the Tax Appeals Commission.

No. 1486B is correspondence from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, dated 12 July 2018, providing an update requested by the committee on the review carried out by Dr. Richard Thorn into Kildare Wicklow ETB.

There is further correspondence on this exact copy, where he provides a copy of the review on the Kildare Wicklow ETB. We will note and publish both items and we will add this to the committee's work programme. This is reference No. 1566B.