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

Ms Rosarii Mannion:

Yes, absolutely. At one point we would have had 555 business cases that would have indicated non-compliance. We have dealt with 235 of those. As I said, some of those are quite minor issues that relate to people not being paid on the appropriate scale, perhaps a play therapist being paid as an attendant and so forth, and one must get those correct because under the strict letter of the law they do not comply with public pay policy. We are working on 320 at present. That is a work in progress. Those are 320 business cases from 15 agencies. I have the breakdown of the agencies and the number of the relevant business cases. They would have come to our attention through responses to the communications I issued, notification from internal audit and notification from the compliance unit. The matter is very much under control. It is getting a great deal of focus. We are working very constructively with these agencies and it is not punitive. We cannot deem them compliant so there is a process of engagement and dialogue around that - looking at the business case, discussing it with our funders in the Department and then deeming it compliant or not. Some of it relates to employee relations, ER, and industrial relations, IR, issues as well. Somebody might already have an entitlement to retain an allowance so there would be-----

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