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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE – FORWARD WORK PROGRAMME
SEPTEMBER 2008 - APRIL 2009

04 September 11 September 18 September 25 September

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)
Consideration of Draft Committee Composite Report

MoR on Committee Report on:
(a) The Use of Operating Theatres in the Northern Ireland Health and Personal Social Services and:
(b) Social Security Agency: Benefit Fraud and Error

MoR on Committee Report on Good Governance - Effective Relationships between Departments and their Arm’s Length Bodies

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

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)
Briefing Session
‘ Statement of Rate Levy and Collection 2006-07 ’ NIAO Report

Witnesses:
Kieran Donnelly, Deputy C&AG, NIAO
Stephen McCormick, Director, NIAO
Joe Campbell , Audit Manager, NIAO

Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Sea Fisheries: Vessel Modernisation and Decommissioning Schemes

MoR on Committee Report on Hospitality Association of Northern Ireland: A Case Study in financial management and the public appointments process

PUBLIC

Senate (2.00pm)
Evidence Session
Statement of Rate Levy and Collection 2006-07

Witnesses:
Leo O’Reilly, Accounting Officer, DFP
John Wilkinson, Chief Executive, LPSA
Arthur Scott, Director of Operations, LPSA
Ann Johnston, Programme Manager for the Rating Reform and Modernisation Programme, LPSA

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)
Briefing Session
‘Delivering Pathology Services: The PFI Laboratory and Pharmacy Centre at Altnagelvin’ NIAO Report

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

Launch of Composite Report
02 October 09 October 16 October 23 October
PUBLIC
Seminar Room, The Laboratory and Pharmacy Centre at Altnagelvin Hospital (2.00pm)
Evidence Session
Delivering Pathology Services: The PFI Laboratory and Pharmacy Centre at Altnagelvin

Witnesses:
Dr Andrew McCormick, Accounting Officer, DHSSPS
Dr Jim Livingstone, Director of Safety, Quality and Standards, DHSSPS
Mrs Elaine Way , CEO, Western Health and Social Care Trust
PUBLIC/CLOSED
Room 144 (2.00pm)
Update on House of Commons Committee on Public Accounts MoR relating to Committee Report on Improving Literarcy and Numeracy in Schools

Update on House of Commons Committee on Public Accounts MoR relating to Committee Report on Northern Ireland’s Waste Management

Launch of the Committee’s Report on Sea Fisheries: Vessel Modernisation and Decommissioning Schemes
PUBLIC/CLOSED
Room 144 (2.00pm)
Briefing Session
‘Warm Homes: Tackling Fuel Poverty’ NIAO Report

Witnesses:
Kieran Donnelly, Deputy C&AG, NIAO
Brandon McMaster, Director of VFM, NIAO
David Murdie, Audit Manager, NIAO
Joe Campbell , Audit Manager, NIAO

Consideration of update on MoR relating to the Committee Report on the Upgrade of the Belfast to Bangor Railway Line

Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Statement of Rate Levy and Collection 2006-07

Draft Forward Work Programme (Jan - Apr’09)
PUBLIC
Stormont Hotel (Confex 2 & 3)
Evidence Session
Warm Homes: Tackling Fuel Poverty

Witnesses:
Mr Alan Shannon, Accounting Officer, DSD
Ms Heather Cousins, Director of Housing, DSD
Mr Stephen Martin, Head of Housing Research and Legislation Branch. DSD
Mr Richard Rogers, Managing Director, EAGA

 

28 October

06 November

13 November

20 November

 

Recess
PUBLIC/CLOSED
Room 144 (2.00pm)
Briefing Session
‘Shared Services for Efficiency – A Progress Report’ NIAO Report

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

NIAO Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Delivering Pathology Services: The PFI Laboratory and Pharmacy Centre at Altnagelvin

Launch of Committee’s Report on Statement of Rate Levy and Collection 2006-07
PUBLIC
Senate (2.00pm)
Evidence Session
Shared Services for Efficiency – A Progress Report

Witnesses:
Mr Leo O’Reilly, Accounting Officer, DFP
Mr David Orr, Director of Corporate Services, DFP
Mr Derek Baker, Director of Central Personnel Group, DFP
Mr David Thomson, Treasury Officer of Accounts, DFP
PUBLIC/CLOSED
Room 144 (2.00pm)
MoR on Committee Report on Managing Sickness Absence in the NICS
27 November 04 December 11 December 18 December
PUBLIC
Room 144 (2.00pm)
Briefing Session
‘Brangam Bagnall & Co: Legal Practitioner Fraud Perpetrated against the Health & Personal Social Services’ NIAO Report

Witnesses:
Mr John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO
Mr Kieran Donnelly, Deputy
Mr Terry Woodhouse, Director of VFM, NIAO
Ms Anu Kane, Audit Manager, NIAO
Mr Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO

Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Warm Homes: Tackling Fuel Poverty

Launch of the Committee’s Report on Delivering Pathology Services: The PFI Laboratory and Pharmacy Centre at Altnagelvin
PUBLIC
Senate (1.30pm)
Evidence Session
Brangam Bagnall & Co: Legal Practitioner Fraud Perpetrated against the Health & Personal Social Services

Witnesses:
Dr Andrew McCormick, Accounting Officer, DHSSPS
Mrs Julie Thompson, Director of Finance, DHSSPS
Mr Dean Sullivan, Director of Planning and Performance, DHSSPS Mr Donald Eakin, Senior Vice President, The Law Society of NI
Mr James Cooper past Senior Vice President, The Law Society of NI
CLOSED
Northern Ireland Audit Office
106 University Street , Belfast (2.00pm)
Final Forward Work Programme (Jan - April 2009)

Draft Forward Work Programme (April – July 2009)

Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Shared Services for Efficiency – A Progress Report
 

 

08 January 15 January 22 January 29 January
Launch of Committee Report on Warm Homes: Tackling Fuel Poverty PUBLIC/CLOSED PUBLIC

PUBLIC/CLOSED

Room 144 (2.00pm)
Senate (2.00pm) Room 144 (2.00pm)
Briefing Session

NIAO Report ‘Road Openings by Utilities: Follow-up to Recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee’

Witnesses:
Mr John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO
Mr Eddie Bradley, Director of VFM, NIAO
Mr Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO

MOR on Committee Report on Sea Fisheries: Vessel Modernisation and Decommissioning

Consideration of Draft Second Composite Report

Launch of Committee Report on Shared Services for Efficiency – A Progress Report
Evidence Session

NIAO Report ‘ Road Openings by Utilities: Follow-up to Recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee’

Witnesses:
Mr Paul Priestley, Accounting Officer, DRD
Mr Geoff Allister, Chief Executive, Roads Service, DRD
Mr Andrew Murray, Director of Networks Services, Road Service, DRD
Memorandum of Reply on Committee Report on Rates Levy and Collection 2006-07

Memorandum of Reply on Committee Report on Delivering Pathology Services: The PFI Laboratory and Pharmacy Centre at Altnagelvin

Draft Forward Work Programme

April – July 2009
05 February 12 February 19 February 26 February
Room 144 (2.00pm) PUBLIC Visit To Dublin 18 & 19 Feb

PUBLIC/CLOSED

PUBLIC/CLOSED Senate (2.00pm) Room 144 (2.00pm)
Briefing Session

NIAO Report ‘The PFI Contract for Northern Ireland’s New Vehicle Testing Facilities’

Witnesses:

Mr John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO
Mr Eddie Bradley, Director of VFM, NIAO
Mr Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO

Consideration of Draft Report on Brangam Bagnall & Co: Legal Practitioner Fraud Perpetrated against the Health & Personal Social Services

Launch of Second Composite Report
Evidence Session

NIAO Report ‘The PFI Contract for Northern Ireland’s New Vehicle Testing Facilities’

Witnesses:

Mr Stephen Peover, Accounting Officer, DOE
Mr Brendan Magee, Chief Executive, Driver and Vehicle Agency
Mr Stanley Duncan, Director of Road Safety Division in the Department of the Environment
Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Road Openings by Utilities: Follow-up to Recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee

Launch of Committee Report on Brangam Bagnall & Co: Legal Practitioner Fraud Perpetrated against the Health & Personal Social Services
05 March 12 March 19 March 26 March
PUBLIC/CLOSED PUBLIC PUBLIC/CLOSED PUBLIC
Room 144 (2.00pm) Intertrade Ireland, Newry (2.00pm) Room 144 (2.00pm) Manor Suite, CAFRE Greenmount Campus (2.00pm)
Briefing Session

NIAO Report ‘Accountability of North/South Bodies 1999-2007’

Witnesses:

Mr Kieran Donnelly, Deputy C&AG, NIAO
Mr Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO
Evidence Session

NIAO Report ‘Accountability of North/South Bodies 1999-2007’

Witnesses:

Pat Colgan - Chief Executive, Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB)
Gina McIntyre,Director of Corporate Services, SEUPB
Bill Pauley - Head of European Division within DFP’s Central Finance Group
Liam Nellis - Chief Executive, InterTradeIreland
David Sterling, Deputy Secretary, DETI
Laurence Lord - Corporate Services Director InterTradeIreland
Briefing Session

NIAO Report ‘Control of Bovine Tuberculosis’

Witnesses:

Mr John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO
Mr Robert Hutcheson, Director of VFM, NIAO
Mr Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO

Consideration of Draft Committee Report on The PFI Contract for Northern Ireland’s New Vehicle Testing Facilities

Launch of Committee Report on Road Openings by Utilities: Follow-up to Recommendations of the PAC
Evidence Session

NIAO Report ‘Control of Bovine Tuberculosis’

Witnesses:

Dr Malcolm McKibbin, Accounting Officer, DARD
Mr Bert Houston, Chief Veterinary Officer, DARD
Mrs Colette McMaster, Director of Animal Health and Welfare Division, DARD
02 April 09 April, 16 April 23 April 30 April
PUBLIC/CLOSED RECESS No Meeting















Launch of Committee Report on the PFI Contract for Northern Ireland's New Vehicle Testing Facilities
PUBLIC/CLOSED
Room 144 (2.00pm)
Briefing Session
NIAO Report ‘Review of Financial Management in the FE Sector in NI from 1998 to 2007 Governance Examination of Fermanagh College of Further and Higher Education’

Witnesses:

Mr John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO
Mr Stephen McCormick, Director, NIAO
Mr Joe Campbell, Audit Manager, NIAO
Room 144 (2.00pm)
Memorandum of Reply on Committee Report on Warm Homes: Tackling Fuel Poverty

Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Accountability of North/South Bodies 1999-2007

 

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