Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

European Court of Auditors Annual Report: Discussion

Mr. Tony Murphy:

As was acknowledged earlier, we are purely auditors. We meet the relevant Commissioners a couple of times per year and we obviously have to keep independent from them. It is not like we are all meeting up the way they do. They have a college of Commissioners, we have a college of the court. We follow things but we are not really party to the general policy orientation, unless, as I said, we are specifically asked to give an opinion on it. The rest is, as the Deputy says, hearsay and gossip, which is a different scenario.

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