PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE – FORWARD WORK PROGRAMME

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)

Briefing Session

‘ Northern Ireland’s Road Safety Strategy’ NIAO report

Witnesses:
John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO
Eddie Bradley, Director of VFM, NIAO
Ursula Moyna, Audit Manager, NIAO

PUBLIC

Senate (2.00pm)

Evidence Session
‘ Northern Ireland’s Road Safety Strategy’

Witnesses:
Stephen Peover, Accounting Officer, DOE
Stanley Duncan, Director of Road Safety Division, DOE
Desi McDonnell, head of Road Safety Branch, DOE
Assistant Chief Constable, Roy Toner, Roads Policing Policy, PSNI
Chief Inspector, Brian Kee, Deputy Head of Road Policing Development Branch, PSNI

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)

Any other business

Memorandum of Response re the Committee Report ‘The Upgrade of the Belfast to Bangor Railway Line’

Correspondence from Andrew McCormick, Accounting Officer, DHSSPS, providing an update on MOR on ‘ The Use of Operating Theatres in the Northern Ireland Health and Personal Social Services’

Consideration of Draft Report on Springvale Educational Village Project.

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)

Briefing Session

‘ Transfer of Surplus Land in the PFI Education Pathfinder Projects’ NIAO report

Witnesses:
John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO
Brandon McMaster, Director of VFM, NIAO
Sean Beattie, Audit Manager, NIAO
Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO

PUBLIC

Wellington College, Belfast (2.00pm)

Evidence Session
‘ Transfer of Surplus Land in the PFI Education Pathfinder Projects’

Witnesses:
Will Haire, Accounting Officer, DE
David Cargo, Chief Executive, BELB
Eugene Rooney, Assistant Secretary, Development and Infrastructure Division, DE
Stephen Halliday, Valuation and Land Services
Tom Redmond, Head of Further Education Estates, DEL

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)

Briefing Session

‘Internal Fraud in Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland ’ NIAO report

Witnesses:
John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO
Eddie Bradley, Director of VFM, NIAO
Patrick O’Neill, Audit Manager, NIAO

Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Northern Ireland ’s Road Safety Strategy.

Press Conference to Launch the Committee’s Report on Springvale Educational Village Project.

PUBLIC

Senate (2.00pm)

Evidence Session
‘Internal Fraud in Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland ’

Witnesses:
Paul Sweeney, Accounting Officer, DCAL
Iain Greenway, Chief Executive, OSNI

Briefing on Fraud Prevention Policy

Witnesses:
David Thomson, Treasury Officer of Accounts, DFP
Ciaran Doran, Deputy TOA, DFP Alison Caldwell, Internal Audit Policy, DFP

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)

Any other business

Correspondence from Alan Shannon, Accounting Officer, DSD, providing an update on the MOR on ‘Housing the Homeless’

Witnesses:
John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO

Forward Work Programme for January – March 2008

Recess

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)

Briefing Session

‘Use of Consultants’ NIAO report

Witnesses:
John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO
Stephen McCormick, Director, NIAO
Clare Dornan, Audit Manager, NIAO

Launch of the Committee’s Report on Northern Ireland ’s Road Safety Strategy.

PUBLIC

Stormont Hotel Belfast (2.00pm)

Evidence Session

‘Use of Consultants’

Witnesses:
Bruce Robinson, Accounting Officer, DFP David Orr, Central Procurement Directorate, DFP
David Thomson, Head of Supply, DFP
David Sterling, Accounting Officer, DRD

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)

Briefing Session

‘Job Evaluation in the Education and Library Boards’ NIAO report

Witnesses:
John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO
Brian Gardiner, Audit Manager, NIAO

Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Transfer of Surplus Land in the PFI Education Pathfinder Projects.

PUBLIC

Senate (2.00pm)

Evidence Session
‘Job Evaluation in the Education and Library Boards’

Witnesses:
Will Haire, Accounting Officer, DE Helen McClenaghan, Chief Executive, SELB
David Woods, Director, Strategy, Performance and Accountability Division, DE
Colin Jack, Director of Culture, DCAL

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)

Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Internal Fraud in Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland .

Correspondence from Malcolm McKibbin, Accounting Officer, DARD, and Stephen Peover, Accounting Officer, DOE, providing an update on MOR on ‘Control of River Pollution in Northern Ireland’

Correspondence from David Sterling, Accounting Officer, DRD, providing an update on MOR on ‘ Northern Ireland: The management of industrial sickness absence’

Launch of the Committee’s Report on Transfer of Surplus Land in the PFI Education Pathfinder Projects.

Recess

Recess

Recess