Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances
4:50 pm
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
The review itself has not yet commenced. I have asked the director of internal audit to procure additional audit personnel from the private sector to assist us in fast-tracking that piece of work but the current resources are deployed on the first review of which we spoke. The internal audit function in the HSE has suffered some attrition through exits earlier this year and, consequently, we are obliged to beef it up, as it were, to address these particular issues. However, that procurement of additional capacity is under way.
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