29 Apr 2015, 15:00
The Dáil Committee of Public Accounts will tomorrow consider draft reports on the Wards of Court and Fisheries Harbour Centres in public session.
29 April 2015
When a person becomes unable to manage his or her assets because of mental incapacity, an application can be made to the courts for this person to become a Ward of Court. Concerns around families of Wards of Court not having a say in how compensation is invested by the State were raised at the PAC meeting of 20 November 2014 with the Courts Service.
The Report on the Fisheries Harbour Centres follows up on a meeting with the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine on 16 October which discussed financial management at the State’s six Centres. A delegation from the Committee also visited Howth Fishery Harbour Centre in March where the assessed underused and derelict properties owned by the State with small business owners.
The meeting takes place tomorrow Thursday 30 April in Committee Room 3, LH 2000 at 10 am.
Public proceedings can be viewed online here.
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Committee Membership
Deputies:
Áine Collins, Fine Gael
Paul J. Connaughton, Fine Gael
Joe Costello, Labour Party
John Deasy, Fine Gael
Robert Dowds, Labour Party
Seán Fleming, Fianna Fáil
Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Féin
John McGuinness, Fianna Fáil (Chairman)
Gabrielle McFadden, Fine Gael
Derek Nolan, Labour Party
Patrick O’Donovan, Fine Gael
John Perry, Fine Gael
Shane Ross, Independent