TalkCarswell.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... in the expertise of government departments civil servants aren't up to the job. Sitting on the public accounts committee, I know the taxpayer is regularly paying over the odds. But it's not simply because civil servants haven't been on enough training courses. It runs deeper. Despite all the jargon, the rules and restrictions over who gets to bid for public contracts...
Maman Poulet (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Keeping a close eye to the Oireachtas Schedule this week I noted two committee meetings that might be interesting to keep an eye to. The first is being held by the Joint Committee on the Constitution on Wednesday morning. Review of the Electoral System: The effect of PR-STV on Women’s Representation in Parliament [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee will this week demand answers from the Prime Minister's Office on how it spent Shs10.8 billion on media and publicity during the 2007 Commonwealth summit.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has resolved to expel any member who disrupts future sessions following last week's fracas that forced a temporary halt in its Chogm expenditure probe.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Tension is high in Parliament as investigations into the 2007 CHOGM expenditures have started. Battle lines have already been drawn in the Public Accounts Committee.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Questions on the actual cost of the new official government vehicle the Volkswagen Passat are expected to feature on Monday when Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Permanent Secretary Joseph Kinyua appear before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
Philosophy Politics Economics (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Tun Ling Liong Sik must also be investigated for his role in the approval and implementation of the Port Klang Free Zone project which commenced under his watch The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal released last Wednesday has received ample media attention, with its specific references to the former Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Chan Kong...
Lim Kit Siang (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Why must Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) wait for Public Accounts Committee (PAC) recommendation for further investigation into former Transport Minister Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy for possible offence of criminal breach of trust in the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal when the first report was lodged with the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) [...]
National Death Service (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
While rates of MRSA and Clostridium difficile are falling, after scandals over major outbreaks, other potentially fatal infections which receive less attention appear to be soaring, the Commons public accounts committee will say. Around 300,000 infections are diagnosed in English hospitals every year – but many more potentially fatal bugs may be going undetected, because...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Todays IT details how it was announced by Bernard Allen, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, that now 2 seperate requests to 2 Senior FÁS...
NHS-THE OTHER SIDE (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Deadly superbugs have increased despite a crackdown on the best-known infections such as MRSA, a parliamentary report will warn this week. While rates of MRSA and Clostridium difficile are falling, after scandals over major outbreaks, other potentially fatal infections which receive less attention appear to be soaring, the Commons public accounts committee will say. Around 300,000...
News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Questions on the actual cost of the new official government vehicle -- the Volkswagen Passat -- are expected to feature on Monday when Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Permanent Secretary Joseph Kinyua appear before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
This is Guernsey (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... out the corporate objectives of the States, he said, and provide the means for deputies and the public to see whether States departments were playing their part in delivering those objectives.At the same meeting, the States approved the Corporate Property Plan.‘Further progress will be made at the end of this month, when the States will be asked to introduce internal regulation in the key...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE:HUNDREDS OF hospital consultants are flouting the conditions of their new contracts by treating too many private patients, the Dáil Committee of Public Accounts heard yesterday.
Fijilive (Free subscription) | yesterday
Local authorities are still unable to ascertain the amount of money lost on a dishonest senior Government employee who resigned almost four years ago. This has been revealed in the latest report of Government watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee.According to the committee’s report on the General Administration Sector - 2006, the Principal Administrative Officer of the...
