Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I will answer in part. I explained the audit of the 2015 financial statements in my opening statement. There were difficulties with the first sets of financial statements for the ETBs in settling the format of the financial statements for them, and there were a number of other issues. That caused a knock-on delay so we were starting the audit of this at the beginning of 2017. The difficulties that were uncovered in the course of the audit obviously delayed the completion of the 2015 financial statements and that has had a knock-on effect for 2016, 2017 and 2018. We are currently doing the audit of the financial statements for 2016. I expect we will do 2017 as well this year. We will have to do 2018 and 2019 next year. It is very unsatisfactory but the circumstances were quite unusual.

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