Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 15 July 2016

Public Accounts Committee

HSE Financial Statement 2015

10:00 am

Dr. Geraldine Smith:

These recommendations arose from the specific findings in Console. As is normal in an audit report, we actually addressed the recommendations to the particular issue. Console is certainly a unique case, as we see. At the time of preparing the report, we did not know what the outcome was with Console. These recommendations, as the director general has identified, will actually feed into the learning process for the HSE in terms of its annual compliance process with the various agencies. While they are addressed to the CEO of Console, and Console is no longer, these recommendations do not die. They will be taken on by our national compliance office in terms of informing its learning and interaction with various agencies. Some of those issues have already been taken on board by the national compliance office. There is a lot of learning from this report.

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