Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 October 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies

9:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

There is a mix of organisations in the 2,279. Some are funded at a local level and some are funded at a national level. We can take either, but for the sake of simplicity I will take a national example. For a national service provider, let us say in mental health, who is commissioned by the mental health division, the audit would be carried out by the internal audit function and that would be received internally by the relevant national director in the HSE who would be responsible for progressing the actions that arise from the audit.