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

1:10 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have one final question relating to WIT which I should have asked earlier. Was it the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General that conducted the annual audit or was it a private audit? I know Mr. McCarthy was not in charge during 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, but what did his office's audit uncover or did it uncover these issues? After its audit, did the office write directly to the board about matters uncovered? What was the response of the board?

We asked these same questions on a previous occasion in the case of FÁS and we asked for copies of the correspondence that would have issued after the audit bringing matters to the attention of the board. I understand the comptroller will say the office did not have the authority to provide them on its own, but FÁS gave permission for the correspondence from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and any responses to be issued to us. Were these issues dealt with year on year in the office's report? If not, is the office satisfied in hindsight with the robustness of the audits? I ask that the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Waterford Institute of Technology provide to us any correspondence bringing issues to the attention of the board as a result of the audit.

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