Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards

1:00 pm

Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin:

From 1 January the position will be that the director general will be the Accounting Officer. The Minister has indicated that he will be bringing legislation to transfer the Vote before the House. That legislation is ready and it will be published shortly, but it will be 1 January 2015 before the Vote will return to the Department and I will become the Accounting Officer for it.