Select Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny Committee to hold first meeting

his Select Committee is a preliminary committee which has been established to define the role and function of the Budget Oversight Committee.

The first business of the Committee will be to elect a Chairperson. It will then consider a draft Work Programme of the Committee to cover the review of arrangements to enhance engagement in relation to the following issues:

•    Scrutiny of revenue raising proposals
•    Scrutiny of expenditure proposals and associated performance
•    Review of the general fiscal position (including engagement on the Stability Programme Update)
•    Establishment and role of the proposed Parliamentary Budget Office with particular reference to the issue of costing of policy proposals
•    Review of Standing Orders and statutory provisions arising from the proposals made in the OECD Report Budgetary Oversight by Parliament: Ireland.

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