Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
10:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
The team comprises seven whole-time equivalents over a year. We may have a dozen people at a particular time if we need more bodies, but it equates to having seven full-time people. There is a very high level of engagement in the course of planning and carrying out the audit and reporting back any issues which we discover. The director of audit attends at least part of almost all the audit committee meetings. It is a very rigorous engagement. I will come back to the Deputy with more detail on it.