They include Ministers of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with special responsibilities for fisheries, and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications with special responsibilities for the marine. Appropriation accounts are audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General before being examined at the Committee of Public Accounts.
Regarding a role for the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General was established under section 9 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 1,108 words from 6 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Senators Garret Ahearn and Robbie Gallagher; Níl, Senators Conor Murphy and Pauline Tully..
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: | Carried | 38–13 |
Party shown is the one each member held on 2025-02-13, frozen by a dated join — not their party today. The Oireachtas API publishes no date of birth and returns an empty gender field for every member in this period, so no age or gender breakdown is shown.