Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

The Minister must offer leadership in this area and cannot move at the pace of the slowest mover, that is, the approach he mentioned of waiting for agreement. I will list three simple political actions he can take. First, he could provide that every appointment to a new board of a State agency be approved by a Dáil committee. Second, he could provide that the Comptroller and Auditor General have a mandate to examine corporate governance in order to foresee any potential mistakes, not waiting for the milk to be spilt. Third, will the Minister give the evaluation of public spending programmes to the Oireachtas and not to Departments? There should be proper evaluation and scrutiny of public spending by Members.

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