Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 15 July 2016

Public Accounts Committee

HSE Financial Statement 2015

10:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

An awful lot is being made of the fact that there are recommendations in the internal audit report that relate to the organisation. It is important to understand that that is absolutely standard practice. Those are matters that could only be remedied by the organisation and any internal report that one finds into any organisation, whether it is a funded organisation or not, will have the bulk of its recommendations typically addressed to the people who run it. Internal audit does not have a role in deciding whether we continue to fund Console. It does not have an opinion on it. It does its work and if it believes there are recommendations that should be made to the board of an organisation, continuing or not, it will make them. There is nothing about that which relates to any thought process about whether Console would continue or not.

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