PAC learning to draw the line on its actions

Public Accounts Committee members were once accused of behaving like ‘wolves’. Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe talks to its head, Seán Fleming, on the restrictions it faces.

JUST metres from TD Seán Fleming’s office in Leinster House lies the committee room where some of the biggest scandals in the State in recent times have been revealed and tackled by politicians.

Abuses of the penalty points system, misspending by state agencies, off-shore bank accounts, Irish Water, whistleblower claims, overspending in the health sector and questions over the care of a young disabled girl in a foster home were all issues investigated by PAC during the last Dáil.