Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 15 July 2016
Public Accounts Committee
HSE Financial Statement 2015
10:00 am
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
The circumstances from 2013 described by the Deputy and our response to them have led to where we are today. In other words, without that more vigorous approach, this audit may not have been commissioned by the National Office for Suicide Prevention. Without additional resources in the audit office, they may not have been able to do it. As a result of the work, we now know about the issues in Console. On a benchmarked basis, given our size, the figure I have in mind for the size of our internal audit function would be 75, as opposed to 50 people. The Comptroller and Auditor General will be able to give advice on what he thinks in that regard.
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