Public accounts committee members in favour of delaying Higgins costs analysis

Any examination of the cost of Michael D Higgins’s first term as president should be delayed until after the October presidential election to prevent any bid to politicise the genuine questions being raised.

A number of the Dáil’s public accounts committee members have called for the short-term postponement of any investigation after committee chair and Fianna Fáil TD Sean Fleming called for an immediate review to take place before the presidential vote.