29 MFómh 2015, 15:41
The Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure & Reform will meet with the Chairman of the Office of Public Works, Ms. Clare McGrath, tomorrow, Wednesday, 30th September, to conduct a mid-year review of Estimates for the Office of Public Works.
29th September 2015
The Committee will consider Vote 13, which provides for Exchequer expenditure of approximately €370million. The meeting will be two parts. The first part will focus on opportunities to improve performance information made to the Committee by the OPW. The second part will focus on the mid-year position, emerging pressures and other developments in relation to the voted expenditure.
“The Committee is attempting to enhance the way it interacts with public bodies and working with them to improve the quality of performance information that is given by them to the Committee” said the Chairman, Deputy Liam Twomey “We want to see public bodies setting targets for the future that are more specific, more relevant and more measurable. We have been engaging with the OPW on this over the last few months and look forward to hearing their views and intentions in relation to this”
The meeting will commence at 2.00 pm in Committee Room 4 tomorrow, Wednesday, 30th September 2015.
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Committee Membership:
Chair: Liam Twomey, Fine Gael
Deputies:
Tom Barry (Fine Gael); Richard Boyd-Barrett (People Before Profit); Ciaran Cannon (Fine Gael); Michael Creed (Fine Gael); Pearse Doherty(Sinn Fein); Regina Doherty (Fine Gael); Stephen Donnelly (Independent); Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fáil); Alan Farrell (Fine Gael); Seán Fleming (Fianna Fáil) Paul Murphy (Socialist Party); Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Fein); Ciarán Lynch (Labour Party); Michael McGrath (Fianna Fáil); Kieran O’Donnell (Fine Gael); Ciara Conway (Labour); Pat Rabbitte (Labour); Arthur Spring (Labour Party); Peadar Tóibín (Sinn Féin); Brian Walsh (Fine Gael)
Senators:
Sean D Barrett (Independent); Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael); Michael D’Arcy (Fine Gael); Aideen Hayden (Labour); Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fáil); Tom Sheahan (Fine Gael)