Committee Reports::Report No. 15 - Institute for Industrial Research & Standards::01 July, 1986::Orders of Reference


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DÁIL ÉIREANN

15ú TUARASCÁIL ÓN GCOISTE UM CHAITHEACHAS POIBLÍ

AN INSTITIÚID TAIGHDE

TIONSCAIL AGUS CAIGHDEÁN

15th REPORT OF

THE

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH

AND STANDARDS

July 1986

DÁIL ÉIREANN

ORDERS OF REFERENCE

21 June, 1983:- Ordered

(1) That a Select Committee (which shall be called the Committee on Public Expenditure) consisting of 17 members be appointed to review the justification for and effectiveness of ongoing expenditure of Government Departments and Offices and of State-sponsored Bodies not included in the Schedule to the Order establishing the Joint Committee on Commercial State-sponsored Bodies in such areas as it may select and to report thereon to the House recommending cost effective alternatives and/or the elimination of wasteful or obsolete programmes, where desirable.

(2) That the Committee have power to appoint such sub-committees and to refer to such sub-committees any matter comprehended by Paragraph (1) of this Order.

(3) That the Committee and any of its sub-committees shall, unless they decide otherwise, hold their meetings in public under the conditions specified in Standing Order No. 74.

(4) That the Committee or any of its sub-committees have the power to send for persons, papers and records and, subject to the consent of the Minister for the Public Service, the Committee have power to engage the services of persons with specialist or technical knowledge to assist it or its sub-committees.

(5) That every report which the Committee proposes to make shall, on adoption by the Committee, be laid before the House forthwith whereupon the Committee shall be empowered to print and publish such report together with such related documents as it thinks fit.

(6) That the Committee or its sub-committees, shall refrain from publishing confidential information regarding the activities and plans of a Government Department or Office, if so requested by a Member of the Government, or of a State-sponsored Body, if so requested either by a Member of the Government or by the State-sponsored Body concerned.

(7) That the Committee present to Dáil Éireann an Annual Progress Report on its activities and plans.

(8) That Members of the Government and Ministers of State be notified of meetings and be allowed to attend and to take part in the proceedings without having a right to vote.

(9) That the quorum of the Committee shall be 5 and that the quorum of each subcommittee shall be 3.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

Deputy	Michael Keating - Chairman
”	Michael O’Kennedy - Vice Chairman
”	Bernard Allen
”	Michael Bell
”	Paudge Brennan
”	Richard Bruton
”	Hugh Byrne
”	Hugh Coveney
”	Joe Doyle
”	John Farrelly
”	Liam Fitzgerald
”	Colm Hilliard
”	Liam Hyland
”	John Kelly
”	Frank Prendergast
”	Noel Treacy
”	John Wilson

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Index
Orders of Reference
Members of the Committee
Chapter	1	-	The Committee’s approach	1
	2	-	The IIRS-its Formation and Development	5
	3	-	The NBST Report and the IIRS 5-Year Plan	9
	4	-	“A” Building Cost Overrun - lessons arising	35
	5	-	The National Standards Authority of Ireland	39
	6	-	IIRS Annual Reports & Accounts	43
	7	-	Conclusions & Recommendations	50
	8	-	Acknowledgements	59

Appendices	1	IIRS 1983 Statement of its role and functions
	2	The N.B.S.T. terms of references for its review of I.I.R.S.
	3	I.I.R.S. Procedures for Control of Building Contracts 1982
	4	Minister’s report to Dáil Éireann on I.I.R.S. cost overrun
	5	Summary of I.I.R.S. Annual Accounts 1981 - 1984
	6	Summary of Budget and Actual Revenue and Capital Expenditure 1979 - 1984