David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We will get to that in a second. I am looking now at St. Hilda's Services Ltd., Athlone. There are a high number of bank accounts, incomplete accounting records, absence of financial controls, expenditure on gifts and entertainment, poor audit trails for credit card expenditure, non-rotation of board members, salary payments in excess of approved pay scales, contracts awarded without competitive procurement, lack of policies and procedures in respect of procurement. That is another organisation where there are failures. I want, if I can, to establish how, as a member of the Committee of Public Accounts, I can be satisfied that taxpayers' money is being spent for the purposes for which it is given and that the organisations availing of taxpayers' money have appropriate procedures and policies in place to ensure the protection of taxpayers' money. I have in front of me an audit of 19 organisations out of 2,200-----