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
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
Yes, I have been having discussions recently about what we would do with regard to some of the audit recommendations that are growing too old and whether a similar process might be applied. By and large, and Michael Flynn referred to this, there is approximately 80% compliance with the recommendations. We have some tolerance because some of them simply take longer to fix. However, if we get to a point that we get an assurance that an audit recommendation has been complied with and subsequently find that it has not been complied with, that will have a financial consequence. We have not moved to that stage yet.
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