Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As someone with a background in the private sector, I am amazed at the lack of oversight of sections 38 and 39 agencies. The director general, who is head of the Health Service Executive, is spending one quarter of his budget on agencies which are not subject to clear oversight.

I do not want to focus on Console but on the macro-issues in terms of how the HSE is spending money on sections 38 and 39 organisations and what protocols are in place. On the internal audit, would it be unusual for an audit to take more than a year to report back from the date on which it was initiated?