Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 May 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

In that particular issue several State authorities, primarily the National Employment Rights Authority, NERA, and the Revenue Commissioners, can appropriately investigate where they are of the view that something untoward may be happening. Further to this, we operate a series of random audits and can also initiate an audit at the request of a school if it is concerned that something is going on. We outsource this work to a company called Contractors Administration Services, CAS, which has completed 13 random audits on school and college construction sites, which two more ongoing. As a result of these audits, information on five projects has been referred to Revenue, one project has been referred to the Department of Social Protection and one to NERA. We have different ways to assist schools where such practices are happening. I suggest the Deputy bring the details of the particular case to which he referred to our attention and we will follow up on it.

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