Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is interesting. Section 21 provides for an elaborate system of accountability by the director of this body to the Committee of Public Accounts. It states that whenever required to do so in writing by the PAC, this body shall give evidence to that committee in regard to the regularity and propriety of transactions and the economy and efficiency of the commission and various other matters. Is it not unusual that the person who is by statute accountable for this body to the Committee of Public Accounts will not be its Accounting Officer and that the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality will be the Accounting Officer for the commission that is being established by this legislation?