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
2:50 pm
Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin:
Yes. I am quite happy to tell the Deputy about the details of that trip but, for the record, in respect of the Department of Finance official, the Department of Finance conducted an internal audit of the Department's involvement in the HSE SKILL project. It established that one of its officials participated in a number of overseas visits connected with SKILL and with other purposes. Costs for the majority of this foreign travel were not paid for by the Department and the official concerned confirmed to the auditors that flights and accommodation for such foreign trips had been paid by SIPTU on his behalf.
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