PAC told to ‘confine itself to issues within its remit’

The high-profile Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has come under fire from another committee for straying beyond its remit and inquiring into areas in the prison services.

An annoyed chair of the Oireachtas Justice Committee, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, has complained about PAC and has now demanded that its chairman and TDs on that body “confine” themselves to “issues that are clearly within its remit”.