Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will do it when we make our periodic report rather than doing it every single time. We have changed our practice. We decided as a matter of principle, because we have not been able to get any transparency or accountability in respect of public-private partnerships, that we are not disposing of any accounts where there is a significant PPP element as we have not been able to examine them to our satisfaction. We have held off closing off any such accounts in recent times. When we come to our periodic report we will do them all in a batch. That is no disrespect to the group. It is just that we have changed our procedure.

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