Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation
11:50 am
Mr. Brendan Rogers:
There are two points. We were on the ground expecting to see a certain amount of money come into a number of districts. The first point is that from looking at the figures, that money did not come into the districts and the second is that national accounts are produced in October. In this context, the Ugandan year runs from July to July. By October the national accounts are produced. When one looks at them, one will see that €4 million is missing. We would have found out that the money had not come through, but there is a time lag between putting in the money and getting it to Karamoja. There is a hole in the national accounts of €12 million, not €4 million. We were going to find it, but there was a time lag-----