Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

A possible audit. Will it be possible to examine the issues concerning the claims? This section is really important and I support it because it requires not just a periodic examination but also an annual review by the State Claims Agency. There may not be many claims and one would hope that the annual review of the State Claims Agency will state everything is above board, great and all the rest of it. Where this is not the case, and bearing in mind that the section allows for the recoupment of claims payments made in error, I do not like the idea that the Minister for Finance will have a report stating the agency believes payments on claims have been made in error and that the Oireachtas will be ill-informed on the issue. If an annual report can be published without compromising personal or commercial data, can there be an undertaking to make it available to the Oireachtas?