Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 October 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)

1:00 pm

Photo of Áine CollinsÁine Collins (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I will rephrase the question. In the time period about which we are talking in respect of the travel and other expenses incurred by the president, were there specific procedures and systems in place and were they looked at? We clearly see this as a systems failure. From what I am hearing, it appears as if the then president was able to write a cheque for anything he so chose at the time. I am most concerned that this seems to have been allowed.