PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE – FORWARD WORK PROGRAMME
APRIL - JULY 2008

3 April	10 April	17 April	24 April
PUBLIC	PUBLIC/CLOSED	PUBLIC	PUBLIC/CLOSED
Room 144 (2.00pm)	Room 144 (2.00pm)	Senate (2.00pm)	Room 144 (2.00pm)
Presentation Presentation from Audit Commission Paper on the National Fraud Initiative including consultation document Witnesses: Peter Yetzes, Associate Director, Audit Commission John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO Janet Sides, Assistant Auditor General (Acting), NIAO David Thomson, TOA, DFP	Briefing Session ‘Hospitality Association of Northern Ireland’ NIAO report Witnesses: John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO Robert Hutcheson, Director of VFM, NIAO Alan Orme, Audit Manager, NIAO Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Social Security Agency: Benefit Fraud and Error Launch of the Committee’s Report on Older People and Domiciliary Care	Evidence Session ‘Hospitality Association of Northern Ireland ’Witnesses: Aideen McGinley, Accounting Officer, DEL Greg McConnell. Deputy Secretary, DEL Edgar Jardine, Deputy Secretary, DCAL Felicity Huston, Commissioner for Public Appointments	Briefing Session ‘Northern Ireland Tourist Board – Contract to Manage the Trading Activities of Rural Cottage Holidays Limited’ NIAO report Witnesses: John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO Stephen McCormick, Director, NIAO Gary Christie, Audit Manager, NIAO Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO Consideration of Committee Report on Good Governance – Effective Relationships between Departments and their Arm’s Length Bodies Launch of the Committee’s Further Report on the Use of Operating Theatres in the Northern Ireland Health and Personal Social Services
1 May *	8 May	15 May	22 May
PUBLIC		PUBLIC/CLOSED	PUBLIC/CLOSED
Senate (2.00pm)		Room 144 (2.00pm)	Room 144 (2.00pm)
Evidence Session ‘Northern Ireland Tourist Board – Contract to Manage the Trading Activities of Rural Cottage Holidays Limited’ Witnesses: Stephen Quinn, Accounting Officer, DETI Alan Clarke, Chief Executive, NITB Kathryn Thomson, Chief Operating Officer, NITB *Launch of Committee’s Report on Social Security Benefit Fraud and Error on Tuesday 29 April 2008	No meeting	Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Hospitality Association of Northern Ireland Correspondence from Will Haire, Accounting Officer, DE, providing an update on MoR ‘The Management of Substitution Cover for Teachers’ MoR on Committee Report on Use of Consultants Launch of the Committee’s Report on Good Governance – Effective Relationships between Departments and their Arm’s Length Bodies	Briefing Session ‘Managing Sickness Absence in the NICS‘ NIAO report Witnesses: John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO Eddie Bradley, Director of VFM, NIAO Paul Craig, Audit Manager. NIAO Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO
29 May	5 June	12 June	19 June
PUBLIC	PUBLIC/CLOSED	PUBLIC/CLOSED	PUBLIC
Senate (2.00pm)	Room 144 (2.00pm)	Room 144 (2.00pm)	Senate (2.00pm)
Evidence Session ‘Managing Sickness Absence in the NICS’ Witnesses: Bruce Robinson, Accounting Officer, DFP Paul Priestly, Accounting Officer, DRD Derek Baker, Director of Personnel in the NICS, DFP John Mallon, Head of Human Resource Consultancy Division in NISRA, DFP	MoR on Committee Report on Northern Ireland Child Support Agency Client Funds Account 2003-04 – 2006-07 Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Northern Ireland Tourist Board – Contract to Manage the Trading Activities of Rural Cottage Holidays Limited	Briefing Session ‘Sea Fisheries: Vessel Modernisation and Decommissioning Schemes’ NIAO report Witnesses: John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO Robert Hutcheson, Director of VFM, NIAO Jacqueline O‘Brien, Audit Manager, NIAO Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Hospitality Association of Northern Ireland: A Case Study in financial management and the public appointments process Launch of the Committee Report on National Fraud Initiative	Evidence Session ‘Sea Fisheries: Vessel Modernisation and Decommissioning Schemes’ Witnesses: Dr Malcolm McKibbin, Accounting Officer, DARD Mr Gerry Lavery, Senior Finance Director, DARD Mr Liam McKibben, Director of Fisheries and Rural Policy Division, DARD
26 June	3 July	10 July	17 July
PUBLIC/CLOSED	PUBLIC/CLOSED
Room 144 (2.00pm)	Room 144 (2.00pm)
Consideration of the Draft Committee Report on Managing Sickness Absence in the NICS MoR on Committee Report on Older People and Domiciliary Care The Committee’s "Report on Northern Association of Northern Ireland: A case study in financial management and the public appointments process" will be launched on Monday the 30th of June	Any other business Draft Forward Work Programme Launch of Committee’s Report on Northern Ireland Tourist Board - Contract to manage the Trading Activities of Rural Cottage Holidays Limited	Recess	Recess

To be scheduled after summer recess:

Launch of the Committee’s Report on Managing Sickness Absence in the NICS in September 2008

Consideration of the Draft Committee Report on Sea Fisheries: Vessel Modernisation and Decommissioning Schemes in September 2008