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. Seán Ó Foghlú:
That is for the future. That is what they have indicated they have put in place. We are obviously very concerned about the findings of the reports. We were concerned when the Comptroller and Auditor General approached us about issues arising in Kildare and Wicklow ETB. We also had a number of other issues ourselves. When we put those together we had a concern. We asked the ETB for responses and we were not satisfied with them. That is the reason we advised the Minister and the Minister decided to put the statutory review in place. Obviously the Comptroller and Auditor General paused his audit until that was complete and then took account of it. Clearly, there are matters of concern, as Dr. Thorn indicated, about the effective operation------
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