Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Essentially, what we really need to be looking at is situations where there is an audit and something is found in that audit. However, there is a feeling that we cannot even get to that. There is a huge amount of going forward and backwards, and, I am sure, a huge administrative burden in trying to get these accounts audited. Is there an additional burden on the Comptroller and Auditor General's office as a consequence of these particular audits not being delivered on time, or is that burden quantified? Does this impact on the treadmill of audits, and how you distribute the work over the year within your office? Are there sanctions? We heard last week that essentially the buck stops with this committee.