Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The interim report was prepared before the audit certificate was issued last year. We were aware of this from last year. From 31 May last, we were aware that internal audit was about to go in and carry out an exercise there. In the circumstances and given what we knew about it at the time, we asked the Accounting Officer to put something into the SIFC-----