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:

To an extent, we must keep an open mind and we have not reached our final judgment. However, we are stating clearly that at this point, we are not judging them to be compliant. We must acknowledge and record the fact they are self-declaring themselves to be compliant in circumstances in which we believe more verification, more information or different information is required.

We will be going through that process with them. They are aware that we do not at this point accept their declaration of compliance.