Public finances
Committee of Public Accounts
Examines the accounts of departments and public bodies after audit.
About
Ask Dex about thisThe Committee of Public Accounts examines departmental and public-body accounts after the Comptroller and Auditor General has audited them, and questions the accounting officers responsible.
Dáil committee
Committee of Public Accounts
Chair and membership
Membership changes. DáilDex links to the Oireachtas page, which is the official dated record, instead of copying a roster that may be out of date.
Hearings
No hearings recorded for this committee in the monitored transcripts.
Transcripts appear about a week after a hearing, so very recent sittings may not be listed yet.
Financial scrutiny
It examines the Appropriation Accounts and C&AG reports, which is where spending is checked against what the Dáil provided.
Spending scrutinised
The departments, accounts or projects a committee examines. This says what was examined, not what it costs the committee.
Committee operating costs
DáilDex has not found a complete, standard public dataset of each committee’s own running costs, so none are shown. Parliamentary costs are not divided between committees by assumption.
Reports and submissions
Work programmes, evidence, submissions and reports are published by the Oireachtas. DáilDex links to them rather than reproducing them.
Follow-up
An issue raised, evidence heard, a recommendation, a response and a later examination, where each step has been recorded with its source.
No follow-up threads have been recorded for this committee yet.
A missing response means none was found in monitored sources. It does not mean none exists, and DáilDex does not call a recommendation implemented without evidence.