Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 January 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
It may or may not be the full picture. In some cases the body is not able to give a full breakdown or analyse its spend as to whether it was competitively procured. We do testing on a sample basis, so certainly we would always go back to them with the ones we have identified. In some cases the figure is a sample-based figure like that. In other cases it may be supplemented by cases that they know themselves and that they identify.