Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. John O'Callaghan:
This is just my opinion, I think that there are issues of independence. That committee's main purpose was to try to resolve the legal issues that had arisen in relation to the Sportsfield Company and the ownership or leasehold of the land that the golf club was on, and also to address and resolve a number of other issues that had come to the fore in relation to accounts, including investment accounts. It was a group that was addressing issues. For the sake of his independence, it was not a place for the internal auditor to be. The internal auditor's job was to independently-----
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