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

4:15 pm

Dr. Geraldine Smith:

I will take that question. One concern I had in carrying out the audit was that a sanction would appear from somewhere. One of the tests I carried out was to contact the Department to check through all its records on these agencies. We gave the Department the information the agencies had provided. The Department came back with three sanctions which were quite old and had nothing to do with the current information I had provided.