Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

-----for less than adequate oversight. I presume there is a standard that is recognised and perhaps the Comptroller and Auditor General has a comment on this. In terms of a spend of €3.6 billion, what would be the expected cost for oversight and audit?

Will Mr. O'Brien speak to us a little further on the various levels of oversight in place? We heard about the internal audit and the national audit committee as a separate body. There is also the risk committee and the compliance unit. My concern is that everybody is responsible but nobody is responsible. I am very interested to know how those different bodies within the HSE relate to each other. What is the level of expertise within each of those? I am not asking the witness to provide that information now but perhaps he could provide us with a schedule of the staffing of each of those bodies and the qualifications of people in particular. For example, will Mr. O'Brien tell us today how many people with particular auditing or accounting expertise are involved with those different sections of the HSE? What is the cost allocated to that oversight function?