Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

They have not disclosed that figure in the financial statements and it would probably be more appropriate if the Chairman were to ask them that question. They may be in a position now to disclose the figure having made a settlement.

Then the final point drawn attention to there is that we identified in the course of the audit that the HSE had not fully complied with legislation in respect of late payment of invoices - there was a change in the legislation in 2013 which they did not implement properly - they have charged an additional €9 million was charged to the income and expenditure account to recognise the expected cost of compensation due to suppliers.