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

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

I can see the value of the national internal audit unit. The problem, however, is the issue that may emerge in an individual ETB due to something going wrong. If the audit committee does not receive the flow of information from an ETB, how does it know something is going on? If it spots something for which it would like internal support, I am sure it would take two years before somebody has the opportunity to address it. If the internal audit committee believes there is an issue with an aspect of what is happening in an ETB, is there a facility for it to inform the chief executive or the board and commission its own external audit at whatever cost on an area of activity within the organisation? If not, the Department has taken the ETBs' ability to respond to local programmes entirely out of their hands. Does that facility exist and has such a situation ever happened in an ETB?

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