Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Following what Deputy Murphy said about repercussions, if there are bold boys in the class there will be bold boys in the class unless there are some fines or some reason why they must make their accounts available and have their audits carried out. Can any sanctions be built in? Someone running a business must have the audit done for the taxman and if it is not done the person is fined or there is a surcharge or interest to pay and so on. Are there any fines in this case? This is public money, given to people and they are two years behind. I find it hard to believe that we are giving money for 2018 to someone who has not shown audits for 2015. There should be some repercussions where public money is being given to a body that has not given its accounts for two or almost three years. That is unbelievable.