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
11:20 am
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Comptroller and Auditor General made a range of recommendations on foot of this figure. A diagram on page 257 of the report shows the status of recommendations from evaluations completed in 2011. While the Department accepted six of the recommendations, it did not accept one of them. Note B states:
To what does this statement refer?
One recommendation was not accepted by management. It is the view of the Evaluation and Audit Unit, in this case, that the position taken by management was reasonable.