Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund
12:00 pm
Mr. Joe O'Flynn:
In our engagement with it, in particular with the CEO whom I met, it stated it believed the money was going to SIPTU. I have no reason to believe the previous CEO, who I met, believed that. However, if one looks at the pattern of the funding arrangement over the years and the fact that some very senior public officials travelled from the Departments of Health, Finance and others, that they could have believed our organisation was paying for the trips is, quite frankly, incomprehensible.
I accept people in the HSE believed the money was destined for and went to SIPTU but I could not accept everybody genuinely believed that. An office oversaw the SKILL programme. I understand all activities were guided through that office. There was a responsibility within it to account for the activities.
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