PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE – FORWARD WORK PROGRAMME SEPT 08- APRIL 2009
| 04 September | 11 September | 18 September | 25 September |
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Room 144 (2.00pm) |
Room 144 (2.00pm) |
Senate (2.00pm) |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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Seminar Room, The Laboratory and Pharmacy Centre at Altnagelvin Hospital (2.00pm) |
Room 144 (2.00pm) |
Room 144 (2.00pm) |
Stormont Hotel (Confex 2 & 3) |
| 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 |
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 |
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) |
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 |
| 29 October | 06 November | 13 November | 20 November |
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Room 144 (2.00pm) |
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| Briefing Session ‘Shared Services for Efficiency – A Progress Report’ 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 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 |
Evidence Session Shared Services for Efficiency – A Progress Report Witnesses: Leo O’Reilly, Accounting Officer, DFP David Orr, Director of Corporate Services, DFP Derek Baker, Director of Central Personnel Group, DFP David Thomson, Treasury Officer of Accounts, DFP |
MoR on Committee Report on Managing Sickness Absence in the NICS Consideration of Responses for Committee Second Composite Report Issues from Oral Evidence Session on NIAO Report - Shared Services for Efficiency - A Progress Report Discussion on Update Paper - NIAO Report on Improving Numeracy and Literacy in Schools |
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| 27 November | 04 December | 11 December | 18 December |
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Room 144 (2.00pm) |
Senate (2.00pm) |
Northern Ireland Audit Office 106 University Street , Belfast (2.00pm) |
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| Briefing Session ‘Brangam Bagnall & Co: Legal Practitioner Fraud Perpetrated against the Health & Personal Social Services’ NIAO Report Witnesses: John Dowdall CB, C&AG, NIAO Kieran Donnelly, Deputy Terry Woodhouse, Director of VFM, NIAO 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 |
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 Neil Guckian, Director of Finance, Northern Health and Social Care Trust |
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 |
To be scheduled after Christmas recess:
Launch of the Committee’s Report on Warm Homes: Tackling Fuel Poverty
Launch of the Committee’s Report on Shared Services for Efficiency – A Progress Report
Consideration of the Committee’s Report on Brangam Bagnall & Co: Legal Practitioner Fraud Perpetrated against the Health & Personal Social Services
| 08 January | 15 January | 22 January | 29 January |
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Room 144 (2.00pm) |
Room 144 (2.00pm) |
Senate (2.00pm) |
Room 144 (2.00pm) |
| Launch of Committee Report on Warm Homes: Tackling Fuel Poverty | Briefing Session |
Evidence Session NIAO Report ‘ Road Openings by Utilities: Follow-up to Recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee’ Witnesses: Mr Paul Priestley, Accounting Officer, DRD |
Memorandum of Reply on Committee Report on Rates Levy and Collection 2006-07 Draft Report on Brangam Bagnall & Co: Legal Practitioner Fraud Perpetrated against the Health & Personal Social Services |
| 05 February | 12 February | 19 February | 26 February |
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Room 144 (2.00pm) |
Senate (2.00pm) |
Room 144 (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 CG, C&AG Mr Eddie Bradley, Director of VFM Mr Joe Campbell, Audit Manager |
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 |
Memorandum of Reply on Committee Report on Delivering Pathology Services: The PFI Laboratory and Pharmacy Centre at Altnagelvin Draft 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 |
Briefing Session NIAO Report ‘Accountability of North/South Bodies 1999-2007’ Witnesses: Mr Kieran Donnelly, Deputy C&AG |
| 05 March | 12 March | 19 March | 26 March |
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Senate (2.00pm) |
Room 144 (2.00pm) |
Room 144 (2.00pm) |
Senate (2.00pm) |
| Evidence Session NIAO Report ‘Accountability of North/South Bodies 1999-2007’ Witnesses: Mr John McMillen, Accounting Officer, OFMDFM |
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 |
Briefing Session NIAO Report ‘ Control of Bovine Tuberculosis’ Witnesses: Mr John Dowdall CB, C&AG Mr Robert Hutcheson, Director of VFM Mr Joe Campbell, Audit Manager |
Evidence Session NIAO Report ‘ Control of Bovine Tuberculosis’ Witnesses: Dr Malcolm McKibbin, Accounting Officer, DARD |
| 02 April | 09 April | 16 April | |
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| Memorandum of Reply on Committee Report on Warm Homes: Tackling Fuel Poverty Draft Committee Report on Accountability of North/South Bodies 1999-2007 Launch of Committee Report on The PFI Contract for Northern Ireland’s New Vehicle Testing Facilities |