Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:10 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I will make a quick comment on that. It is a relatively unusual event for a body to publish unaudited accounts. I only know of a handful of cases where it has happened. In the code of governance there is an expectation that unaudited financial statements, with all the notes and so on, are submitted to the relevant Department within two months of the end of the financial year. Therefore, unaudited accounts are being used at an official level, but it is quite unusual for them to be published.