Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 41 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 5 - Management of Government Grants
Chapter 6 - Payroll Accrual for National Accounts
Chapter 7 - National Lottery Fund
10:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
No, it was external consultation. We put it out to external consultation and invited people to comment. We got back a reasonable number of comments from people who would be interested in this such as accountancy bodies, auditing bodies and others with an interest in this because as the Chairman is aware, there has been a concern in the past about some of the governance failures and some of the issues that arose about management teams that were not working properly, about how ICT was being used and so on. The Civil Service now has a common standard and by next year, each Department must come up with its own governance framework that is consistent with and has all the different elements that are in the common standard.