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
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Correct. I will ask Mr. O'Brien, in his own time, to assist this committee in this context. The HSE has improved a measure and got it right, something that has not happened in other public sector bodies. We are dealing with major State companies and the Comptroller and Auditor General is still waiting for public bodies to present their accounts for 2015, not to mind the clearance for audit. Mr. O'Brien might send the committee a note on how he achieved it. I am asking him to do that by way of assisting the committee with other organisations. We could do with some of that. I hope the officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are listening. We will be having officials from that Department in before us on this particular issue. The Comptroller and Auditor General has referred to the timeliness of financial reporting in the public sector. The HSE seems to be making good strides. It might not be popular to say that today but I have to be straight about it.
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