Replacement of Sinn Féin's Brian Stanley as PAC chair to go to Dáil after 'circus' committee meeting

Sinn Féin has also proposed that Matt Carthy, its foreign affairs spokesperson, be nominated to the committee

Sinn Féin has proposed Galway West TD Mairéad Farrell as the new Public Accounts Committee chair. File photo: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie

The replacement of Brian Stanley as the chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to go forward to the Dáil next week, after the Dáil Committee of Selection unanimously agreed to the proposal.

Sinn Féin has proposed Galway West TD Mairéad Farrell as the new PAC chair.