Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation

11:20 am

Mr. William Carlos:

In this case, where we are providing money through the major funds, that is, government systems, this highlights that as we provides money across the government - we do not have any connections with some of the government departments - there are some audit issues that are being followed up. For this reason, one cannot provide a clear opinion on all of the government accounts.

The other issue is that when we provide money into the government systems, for example, to the health sector in Tanzania, the group of auditors will do its own audit work. The ministries through which we are predominately working invariably have clean audits. If there are issues, we are following them up with them. This figure is trying to highlight the challenges of bringing this information together. As the Secretary General noted regarding the audit opinion, it is flagging some issues that need to be followed up. That is the basis of the information that has been provided.

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