Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The Department would have the option to carry out spot checks where it gives grants and where it makes that a condition of the grant. We would be looking at the Department's controls over the payment of such grants.

I checked the transaction referred to. It dates back a number of years. It is an amount of €25,000. The total spend on the subhead it came from was €9 million in the year. We did not pick this one to look at the controls, but if the question is whether we would carry out spot checks in organisations that are grant funded, the answer is "No". That is not available to me.

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