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

5:55 pm

Mr. Tony O?Brien:

What I would need to know before reaching a view on that is what the aims and objectives of this entity were, the purposes for which it obtained these funds and whether it was legitimate for us to take the view that, if these funds were available to the CRC, it needed less funds from us. I do not have any of that information at this time, so I would be cautious about forming an opinion. Clearly, there are some interesting questions that could be derived from an examination of this revenue account in so far as it relates to 2011 and 2010.