Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
9:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
The body is given work to do. It has a work programme and remit. It undertook an investigation or forensic audit and discovered that there was an issue. Perhaps the money was intended for a particular purpose but was not spent on that purpose. I am only speculating here. Let us say there is a project to support a particular community group or activity and then it transpired, with audit, that the spending was undertaken for a different purpose. In effect, the SEUPB has a responsibility to us then. We are the body to which it is accountable.
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