Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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In the HSE internal audit into Console, it made it very clear that because of all its findings or conclusions were of a high risk rating, they collectively proposed a systemic problem for the HSE, not for Console. That was from the HSE's internal audit. That was not fully accepted by the director general, but it was what the internal audit said. We still have not come back to it, because since we dealt with Console, we have had a number of other charities that have found themselves in similar situations. We are really busy and it goes back to the resource issue, including the amount of time we have to spend on issues, the resources of the staff here and even the Comptroller and Auditor General. There are big issues in that area that we have not dealt with.