Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 December 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration

1:25 pm

Mr. Barry O'Brien:

Our position is that the agency confirmed compliance and no issue was identified by the audit in respect of eight of those agencies. We did take that additional step in respect of the five that initially did not reply. In the interests of absolute certainty we looked for a formal response from them and did not take a non-reply as being a statement of compliance. All of the agencies have replied in that regard.