Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We are left with four examples of accounts. I am not sure if one of them is a good example. In any event, I look at all the accounts that come before us and I wonder how these problems arise continuously, other than as a result of historical difficulties in the context of merging, etc. In the documentation, reference is made to checks and balances. There is an audit committee, a finance committee and so on. Then people contact us and ask if the finance committee met, if minutes of its meetings were written up and if the minutes were passed up the line. Who checks that? The documents provided by SOLAS refer, in lovely language, to the finance committee, the audit committee, etc. Then somebody informs us that a particular finance committee did not meet very often and that the minutes of its meetings were not received. I am talking in a general about this matter before I go into specifics. Who checks that people are fulfilling their responsibilities? We have seen this with Templemore and with other groups and organisations.