Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 June 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Control of Humanitarian Assistance Funding
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade

9:30 am

Mr. Ruairí de Búrca:

We do that on the basis of our standard approach to grant management. We do audits, management checks and monitoring visits. Our embassies also check. We have regular meetings. We go and see, and we follow the money. We have quite a strong record of uncovering frauds where they occur and we follow them up. As the question arises in the context of a given organisation, we have no evidence to suggest that Irish Aid funding that went to that organisation historically did not go to where it was intended. However, our governance checks indicated that we were not happy so we decided not to continue funding. That shows that the checks are robust.

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