The party has revealed the seven TDs who will take up the coveted roles, who will be entitled to an additional €10,000 per year for the positions.
Mairead Farrell took over the PAC chair position from former Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley, but only held the position for a number of weeks before the dissolution of the Dáil ahead of the general election.
Now the party’s spokesperson for Public Expenditure, Ms Farrell will take over the chairpersonship on the Finance Committee from Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness.
While Mr Brady is not part of the new front bench announced earlier this year, the position of PAC chair is an influential one and the committee previously played a central role in scrutinising the RTÉ payments scandal in the last Dáil term.
There are a number of issues that will be already in the sights of PAC, including the overspend on the controversial IT system by the Arts Council.
Cavan-Monaghan TD Matt Carthy will take on the chair of the Justice, Home Affairs and Migration Committee.
Mr Carthy is Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Justice.
Chair of the Disability Matters committee has been given to Limerick City TD Maurice Quinlivan, who ran in the recent Limerick mayoral election.
Party spokesperson on Enterprise, Rose Conway-Walsh will be the chairperson of the Defence and National Security Committee.
Louise O’Reilly, Sinn Féin’s social protection spokesperson, will take on the chairperson role for the Petitions Committee, while Waterford TD Conor McGuinness will be the chair of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs.
“This is the largest number of committees that Sinn Féin has ever chaired in the Dáil, and are committees that will set the political direction for the coming years in ensuring zero tolerance for the waste of taxpayers money, having a migration system that works and standing up for Irish neutrality,” Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said.
Ms McDonald said Sinn Féin chairs “will work day and night” to hold this government to account and “ensure taxpayers money is spent properly”.
“It is vital that all committees get to work quickly. The government have stalled for long enough and instead of dragging this work out for another month they need to speed up the process and allow Committees to get to work,” she added.
Yesterday government parties revealed which TDs will take on chairperson roles in 15 committees.
These included Fianna Fáil’s Erin McGreehan, who will chair the Committee on Further & Higher Education and Fine Gael’s Micheál Carrigy will be the chair of the Committee on Housing.
Other opposition chair positions announced this week include Labour TD Alan Kelly who will chair the Media, Arts and Culture Committee and Social Democrats TD Pádraig Rice will chair the Committee on Health.
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