Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Collection of Pension Contributions due to the Exchequer
Chapter 3 - Control of Funding for Voted Public Services
Chapter 5 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 99: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 100: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2016
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Perhaps Mr. McCarthy can illuminate some of this for me, which might help Mr. Watt to answer my question. My point, which we have discussed at this committee several times, is that this comes up repeatedly. There are a multitude of reasons for it happening. We ask the Comptroller and Auditor General about it and he tells us this is the reason. Some of it is due to practical reasons. It is not right but it can be said that there is a practical reason. Some of it is not, however, and is either a disregard for the rules, a lack of planning or the board did not have sufficient controls in place. Will the Comptroller and Auditor General give us a flavour of what I see as a problem by outlining where it happens the most and in what areas does it repeatedly happen?
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