Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion

12:20 pm

Seán Ó Foghlú:

I would draw a distinction with the total reporting. We are very disappointed that the Deloitte report has not been completed. To be fair to WIT, those concerned have been endeavouring to go back through the relevant records and have tried to get as much to us and to the Comptroller and Auditor General as possible in advance of the meeting. To be fair to them, I do not think they had any intention to mislead the Committee of Public Accounts. They probably just forgot to send it on to the committee. I do not think there was a deliberate intention. They were trying to get as much information to us as possible in advance.