Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group

11:05 am

Mr. Keith Poole:

I was preparing the financial statements in January 2013. There must be a related party disclosure, so these have to be disclosed. I checked the company Laragh Consulting on the CRO website and discovered that it had been struck off. Therefore, it does not exist. I brought this to the attention of the chief executive, and she asked me to speak to Mr. Flannery, which I did. I told him that this company could not issue invoices any more because it does not exist, so following on from that date, he invoiced under his own name, Frank Flannery. I advised him that the fact these payments were made to Laragh Consulting would be disclosed in our accounts as soon as they were filed, and he assured me the matter was in hand and he was getting sorted, but that was not my business, to be honest about it.