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
2:40 pm
Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin:
It was either my predecessor or the relevant assistant secretary. There were different people involved, depending on their location, but for members of the MAC, the higher level people in the Department, it would have been done by a Secretary General. The bottom line is that study visits from assistant principal officer to assistant secretary level have to be approved at the highest level. I want to make it absolutely clear that there is no evidence of impropriety or maladministration in respect of the approval for the departmental officials.
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