Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland
12:25 pm
Mr. Niall Ó Donnchú:
The first this Department was aware of this arrangement in relation to the removal expenses was last July when the draft audit query was made known to us. There is a circular, which has been referred to a number of times here today, governing removal expenses and the National Gallery, as is a statutory agency, a long-standing statutory organisation with officers who are here today, is well aware of the contents of that circular. I have no recollection of being consulted - nor do colleagues - on or looking for guidance in relation to that matter.