Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 October 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies
9:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I see the briefing document from Mr. O'Brien and all the relevant documentation. We have an internal audit unit reporting to an audit committee. Then we have the Comptroller and Auditor general doing his statutory duty. Then we have all the external reviews, to which I will refer in a minute. We have a compliance unit that is costing money, and another to be set up, a contract support unit. Somebody asked last year for the cost of all these. The figure is in millions of euro and we have not even included the new ones. What resources would be needed at Mr. Flynn's level rather than, reactively, at all these other levels? What does Mr. Flynn need to do a proper job and give us confidence?
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