Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group

11:15 am

Mr. Keith Poole:

I would not say we were lax in respect of looking at spend, absolutely not. Hindsight is a great thing. In respect of these invoices to which the Deputy refers, Frank was a director and that should have gone through the board. I agree absolutely. I do not, however, accept we are lax in any way in regard to monitoring our spend.