[11:31] Highest paid HSE staff earned almost €1m in remuneration

The Public Accounts Committee has heard that the highest paid staff member in the Health Service Executive received almost €1 million in total remuneration last year.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/1024/1477213-pac-hse/

#ThePublicAccountsCommittee #theHealthServiceExecutive #almost€1million #lastyear

[19:16] ‘We asked for a bike shed, not the Taj Mahal’ – OPW appears before the Public Accounts Committee on €336,000 scandal

A spokesperson for Labour leader Ivana Bacik has said that the Oireachtas Cycling Group “asked for a bike shed, not the Taj Mahal we got” after the chair of the Office of Public Works appeared before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to answer questions over a controversial €336,000 bike shed.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/we-asked-for-a-bike-shed-not-the-taj-mahal-opw-appears-before-the-public-accounts-committee-on-336000-scandal/a882743642.html

#IvanaBacik #theOireachtasCyclingGroup #theOfficeofPublicWorks #thePublicAccountsCommittee #acontroversial€ #336,000

[18:08] Sinn Féin's Mairéad Farrell appointed new chair of PAC

Sinn Féin TD Mairéad Farrell is the new chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the Dáil's financial watchdog.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/1022/1476873-mairead-farrell-pac/

#SinnFéin #MairéadFarrell #thePublicAccountsCommittee #Dáil

[22:13] OPW to defend cost of modular homes to accounts committee

Officials from the Office of Public Works (OPW) will defend the cost of modular homes when they appear before the Public Accounts Committee tomorrow, describing them as "State assets".

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/1021/1476705-opw-modular-homes/

#theOfficeofPublicWorks #OPW #thePublicAccountsCommittee #tomorrow

[14:55] SF's Farrell 'doesn't see why' she will not be PAC chair

Sinn Féin TD Mairéad Farrell has said she "doesn't see why" she would not become chair of the Public Accounts Committee next week.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1019/1476346-sinn-fein/

#SinnFéin #MairéadFarrell #thePublicAccountsCommittee #nextweek

[14:55] SF's Farrell 'doesn't see why' she will not be PAC chair

Sinn Féin TD Mairéad Farrell has said she "doesn't see why" she would not become chair of the Public Accounts Committee next week.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1019/1476346-sinn-fein/

#SinnFéin #MairéadFarrell #thePublicAccountsCommittee #nextweek