Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Pat Smyth:

The point I think the Deputy is making relates to the statement on internal control where we have a list of weaknesses within that. We called those out. The statement on internal control is our own document where we identify our own weaknesses.

We have had an improving position in terms of governance over the moneys that are paid to funded agencies that work with us. That is very much a work in progress because it is something that the Comptroller and Auditor General called out for special mention in the past. The controls have improved significantly to a point where we now have robust controls engaged with those agencies. They are not perfect, though, or at a level where we believe we can stand our efforts down. As such, we continue to mention the weaknesses as something that the agency needs to address.

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