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

3:35 pm

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

The Deputy's point that those who have responsibility for making those payments have had fair notice and that they have all signed service level arrangements which make it explicitly clear is well made. They have been in a process involving internal audit for more than 12 months. The policy has been made abundantly clear to them and at this point we are still not satisfied that the self-declarations of compliance are valid.