Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 March 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

No, I would not expect it to. What we do when we prepare the management letter is to create a record of our engagement with the HSE in relation to the 2013 financial statements, as in this case. The higher level issues or higher priority issues we identify in that letter have already been brought to the attention of the audit committee in the HSE. When the report is finalised, it will be with the audit committee and we will explain to it our concerns and then it would work with HSE management to ensure that the weaknesses were addressed.