Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes

9:30 am

Dr. Orlaigh Quinn:

I will speak to the audit first. We are outsourcing the audit. We tendered for it in July, we had three proposals and we awarded the contract in September. We expect that to be run from the Department but it will most definitely involve the role of the local authorities and engagement with them. On the timeline, the awarded contractors have had some delays but we are expecting it early in the New Year. When that audit part is done, we will then commence the evaluation. As other Deputies have noted, the evaluation is very important for us from the learning perspective in terms of how we might do this in the future. I cannot give the Deputy a definitive date but we are expecting the audit to be finished by the end of February. That will allow us to move straight away onto the evaluation.

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