Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 March 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

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

I suspect that improvements have since been made.

The next item is No. 4.6, the health repayment scheme (donation) funds. There is no turnover. It is a fund established a number of years ago to receive donations from long-stay patients or their estates arising out of the overpayment of charges.

The next item is a special account established for the purposes of the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act. There is no turnover and a clear audit opinion. The Environmental Protection Agency received a clear audit opinion. It is on the work programme of the committee.

The HSE received a clear audit opinion, apart from the inadequate monitoring of grants and the issue of the surplus on capital income and expenditure account brought forward. We examined the financial statements for 2017 last year. For some reason, the HSE was late in lodging them with the Oireachtas but the committee has already examined them.

The next item is the University of Limerick, which received a clear audit opinion. The Economic and Social Research Institute also received a clear audit opinion. The HSE patient and private property accounts, clear audit opinion. The HSE disclosed some inadequate controls of private property accounts in 2017, which was dealt with by the committee as part of our discussion of the 2017 accounts with the HSE.

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