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-----