Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
3:45 pm
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
We are working as quickly as we possibly can to bring that about. We have set a number of deadlines this month, each of which now has passed. We have shared with the committee the current status with regard to each of those. We intend to take a forensic look at the returns we have received, particularly where the evidence of the audit report and other evidence available to us suggests the self-declaration of compliance may not be valid. We will consider exactly what should be our next steps as all this information becomes available but we certainly intend to address this in the context of the 2014 service level arrangements if it has not been resolved before then.