Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

-----because it is a one-off function. The difficulty in going down the route of making a definition and then forcing everybody to report in the context of that definition is that they will start from scratch, whereas in the governance statement attached to every set of financial statements now, they have a listing of consultancies so it is available for harvesting, so to speak.