Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 15 July 2016
Public Accounts Committee
HSE Financial Statement 2015
10:00 am
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
-----from the interim liquidation process, which will produce a bottom line position. Second, we were not donating money. We were buying a service, and we got the service. We are not a donor. We were not putting money in the Console box. We were seeking a specific service which we know we received. Had it had a more effective system of accounting, one that would have served it better in the circumstances, probably our audit would have only looked at our money and looked for corollary expenses equivalent to it. We are told by the former interim CEO that, in his view, the costs incurred by Console over that period of time were greater than the amount of money we were giving. That is how I form that view, but I have not reached, and cannot reach, a definitive view until we see the end product of what is in the net residual balance sheet.
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