Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs

9:30 am

Mr. Ruair? de B?rca:

We have a standard approach to grant management, which is an assessment tool that we use to look at organisations. We look at things like governance as part of that. There are times when an organisation might come to us looking for funding and we might refuse on the basis of governance. The last time we appeared before this committee there was a high-profile organisation which we discussed. We declined it for funding on the basis of our governance checks. From time to time issues arise. We have a fraud register. It is a relatively small amount of money. Last year, I think just shy of €80,000 was detected in fraud and most of that was returned to us. Sometimes that is theft by an employee or something like that. While one should never be complacent, that accompaniment we do along the way to make sure-----

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