Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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When it comes to the financial statements of other organisations which he audits, other than the appropriation accounts, he does not have a mechanism to include a special chapter in his report. That is something at which we need to look. Mr. McCarthy is only in a position to highlight issues to us about line Departments. Where he believes there is a need to provide additional information, he has such a mechanism for line Departments, but he does not have one for the other 300 organisations, the accounts of which he audits. On the face of it, there is a gap.