Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 15 July 2016

Public Accounts Committee

HSE Financial Statement 2015

10:00 am

Ms Anne O'Connor:

I might deal with that. We have discussed the concerns from 2009, the meetings that were held and the discussions with the previous director. At that time measures were put in place to restrict or cap the funding available to the organisation. That remained the case until 2013. The service arrangement process to which the Deputy refers did kick in, because what really brought all of this to immediate attention was the submission of the audited accounts for 2013. Those audited accounts were submitted in 2014 and it was in light of the findings, and other concerns that arose at that time, that we asked internal audit to go in. We were invoking our powers to go in and expecting full co-operation from the organisation, as we get from any organisation in an audit. That was what we did at that time; we used our service arrangement and our actual power to carry out the audit.

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