Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Ms Colette Drinan:

We have a small number of audited bodies that are in a similar situation, where there is not a lot of activity or they are effectively dormant.

We engage with the Departments to ascertain whether there is an appetite or a need for those vehicles going forward. Certainly, in terms of the Gathering Project, we have engaged with the Department and its view is that it would prefer to retain it. It is probably convenient to have a vehicle in the event that the situation changes, rather than having to go through the statutory process and re-establishing. That can be part of the thinking. Obviously, in some cases, it requires statutory provision to remove it as well. That is also a consideration.