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DÁIL ÉIREANN

AN 25ú TUARASCÁIL ÓN GCOISTE NA DÁLA UM CHAITEACHAS POIBLÍ

COMPARÁIDÍ IDIRNÁISIÚNTA MAIDIR LE CUNTASACHT PHARLAIMINTEACH I NDÁIL LE CAITEACHAS POIBLÍ

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25TH REPORT OF THE DÁIL COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF PARLIAMENTARY ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

January, 1987.



DÁIL ÉIREANN


AN 25ú TUARASCÁIL ÓN GCOISTE NA DÁLA UM CHAITEACHAS POIBLÍ


COMPARÁIDÍ IDIRNÁISIÚNTA MAIDIR LE CUNTASACHT PHARLAIMINTEACH I NDÁIL LE CAITEACHAS POIBLÍ


________________________


25TH REPORT OF THE DÁIL COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC EXPENDITURE


INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF PARLIAMENTARY ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PUBLIC EXPENDITURE


January, 1987.


TABLE OF CONTENTS


 

 

Page

Orders of Reference

 

Membership of the Committee

 

Report

 

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Background

1

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Select Committee s in the U.K. House of Commons

1

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The Treasury & Civil Service Select Committee

2

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Visit by Committee delegation to the United Kingdom

4

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Prime Minister’s Efficiency Unit

5

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Conclusions

7

Visit by Committee delegation to the United States

8

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General Accounting Office

8

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House and Senate Budget Committees

9

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Congressional Budget Office

11

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Office of Management and Budget

12

Visit to New York State Capital, Albany

13

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Rockefeller Institute

13

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Division of the Budget

13

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Division of Audits and Acccounts

14

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Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review

14

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Conclusion

15

Visit by Committee delegation to Switzerland

16

 

Key features of the Swiss Economy

17

 

Parliamentary Supervision of Public Spending

19

 

The Commissions on Finances

22

 

The Administrative system

24

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Conclusions

26

Recommendations

29

Appendices

 

I

Membership of Committee delegations

32

II

Federal Law of the Swiss Federal Audit Office

33

III

Helping Managers Manage

37

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 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.
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