Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 15 July 2016
Public Accounts Committee
HSE Financial Statement 2015
10:00 am
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
The Deputy is raising various theories and sharing her suspicions about things that happened seven or eight years ago. In terms of learning, which was the Deputy's specific question, and particularly in regard to discussions we had with the committee about our audit of pay compliance which led to issues that were heard before this committee relating to the Central Remedial Clinic, CRC, and another organisation, the facts that we have carried out this audit, that we have established a compliance unit and that we have strengthened our internal audit functions are evidence of learning. I cannot speak to the Deputy's suspicions or theories about that period of time because I have no direct, or even indirect, knowledge of that period of time or what was in the minds of those officials at the time.
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