National Audit Act proposal
Mitchell again asked about expanding the Public Accounts Committee’s remit and introducing a National Audit Act like Britain’s. The Minister said he would consider the Act proposal.
I would like to thank the Minister for his very kind compliment but will he tell us, seeing he did not reply to the question which I put to him, if he agrees the Committee of Public Accounts could include within their own remit the remit of the Committee on Public Expenditure? Will he say if he is contemplating introducing a National Audit Act along the lines of the British Act of 1983?
Comment on this
The answer to the first part of the question is that I understand that discussions are taking place within the committee and I do not want to pre-empt the outcome of those discussions. As regards the second part of the question, that is a matter to which I will have to give some consideration.