Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 15 July 2016
Public Accounts Committee
HSE Financial Statement 2015
10:00 am
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
First, our internal audit division made a report to An Garda Síochána last February. That matter is ongoing. The internal audit division made the report for the obvious reason that it was concerned that a Garda investigation was necessary. It is of significance that the report in question was made to the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation. I am not trying to be evasive in any way. We need to see the net funding position. If there are bills left over at the end of this exercise which should have been paid from the funding we provided, a certain conclusion can be reached. The formal referral to the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation was made on 25 April, but there had been contact with An Garda Síochána before that.
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