Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 September 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits

12:20 pm

Dr. RuaidhrĂ­ Neavyn:

If I could just recap, we have taken a large number of measures to deal with this and, to be fair to the governing body, it was swift in its action once the matter was raised with it in terms of the commissioning of the reports from Deloitte, the independent reports in terms of the outturn of the expenditure. We have obviously reviewed all the expenditure of the office of the president.

All travel is pre-approved and all expenditure of the office of the president is co-authorised. All expenditure in the office of the president is reviewed by the governing body of the institution to ensure it is appropriate. On top of that, we have reviewed the travel and hospitality policies and withdrawn all corporate cards and introduced additional internal financial controls to strengthen the process to ensure all expenditure is in line with appropriate Government policy.

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