Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

They did not meet the six-month criterion. There is a provision in the code of practice that if it is not practically possible to complete them by the end of June an extension of time can be given by the Ministry. That is more honoured in the breach than the observance. Formal deadlines would not be extended. In general, a Department should know if it has not received financial statements by the end of June that-----