Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 June 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 14 - Control of Ireland's Bilateral Assistance Programme
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that and I realise it is complex but we should not go down the road of renting without thinking. Only recently we had the president of a university before the committee. He was in accommodation for €3,000 per month on taxpayers' money. That is simply an example. Whether that is good value for money is a matter for us to examine. Anyway, that mentality has persisted in recent years. That is why I made my comments.

I have some specific questions on fraud and I will come back to justice and aid in a moment. Page 20, dealing with Vote 28, refers to fraud and suspected fraud. What is the update on that note? It states that the Department initiated an investigation that was at an early stage. The note dates from 2016 but we are in 2018 now. Has that been completed? Where are we on that?

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