Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund

12:30 pm

Mr. Joe O'Flynn:

Which is all the more reason that I cannot understand why the Comptroller and Auditor General's office has not been given sight of the report. I have done everything possible to encourage the fund administrator to give sight of the report to the Comptroller and Auditor General in the same way as he gave sight of it to our trustees. I am of the view that he would be better served by doing so. When I engaged him in respect of the matter, the fund administrator told me he was not doing as outlined because of the legal advice he had received. If I were him, I would not accept that legal advice. I am of the view that it would be better for him and everyone else if he were to give the Comptroller and Auditor General sight of the report. I do not believe it is too late for him to do so. On several occasions I asked the members of the inspection team whether they would not ask for sight of it again. I certainly tried to encourage him as best I could but I did not make any progress on it.