Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2014-2015

9:00 am

Mr. John Field:

A weakness or breach of a control can arise. They can be identified in different ways. There are people responsible for the implementation of controls. As I outlined, the expenses administrator is responsible for ensuring the controls are followed and if that person identifies a breach in controls, he or she would refer it appropriately.

There are also instances that might be identified through an audit where something was identified that this control did not operate in this instance. In that case, either the likes of myself or other people with responsibility for controls would look at how we can implement improvements to our process to make sure the breaches-----

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