Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 March 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:15 am

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I agree with everything said so far on this. With regard to missing information and the submission we received from Rehab on the coffin venture with Complete Eco Solutions, this week the committee received anonymous correspondence on an invoice from Complete Eco Solutions. The numbers simply do not tally. In her letter Ms Kerins stated there was a one-off purchase in 2010 of two containers of coffins and 252 coffins were purchased. We have an invoice, No. 4016, which one must presume is legitimate, made out to Mr. Michael Horgan, Rehab Enterprises Limited which mentions four 40 ft containers with 132 coffins in each container which amounts to 528 coffins. Even the very basic information with which Ms Kerins provided us on the coffin venture does not seem to be accurate based on the invoice information we received.