Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 June 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:15 am

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will do that.

No. 3C is documents relating to today's committee meeting, including briefing papers from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, the RSA and Mr. John O'Brien. No. 4 is reports, statements and accounts received since the meeting on 12 June 2014. No. 4.1 is the Ireland-United States Commission for Educational Exchange. No. 4.2 is the Health Service Executive. I draw members' attention to the fact the HSE's annual financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2013 were delivered after our hearing last week. The Comptroller and Auditor General has drawn attention to a number of notes in regard to the accounts, including the ineligibility for medical cards in the context of internal financial control and disclosures. The second one is weaknesses in the HSE oversight and monitoring of grants to voluntary sector providers, the high incidence of failure to comply with relevant procurement guidelines and regulations, the non-recovery of potential income from other EU states and instances of non-compliance with the tax code. That is arising out of the 2013 annual financial statements. I do not know whether the Comptroller and Auditor General wants to comment on any of that.

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