Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres

9:00 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

Allow me to clarify what the Acting Chairman has asked. We have governance reviews ongoing. The last time we appeared before the committee, 22 of X number of reviews has been completed. The reviews are looking at the governance inside section 38 organisations predominantly. They are not value-for-money reviews but look more at internal governance, for example, whether they have internal audit functions, rotating board memberships and so on. We can give an update on that.

Ms O'Connor referred to an exercise that is looking at disability and mental health residential placements around the appropriateness, procurement, cost, effectiveness and value in placements. That is also under way. As Mr. Reid said, next year we will look at our standard contractual agreement with all the section 38 and 39 organisations. That is also ongoing. There is a lot going on in that space. We need to clarify specifically how we can best address the question the Acting Chairman asked.

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