Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 September 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed)

9:40 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

I will make a couple of comments on that and I will ask the chief financial officer to do so as well. The nature of that fraud was surfaced and identified by us as part of the financial returns requested. It occurred over a number of years. That is our understanding of it. I will not go into the details of the scale of the fraud. Suffice to say, it is significant that criminal charges - prosecutions - are being brought. Many issues arise from that case that we have taken on board in internal audits of other organisations and for controls that need to be put in place. A few general issues have come through but, as the Deputy said, it will be part of a criminal case shortly, so I will not go into the full details of it. The chief financial officer might want to give some more instances of what we found.

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