Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 April 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency

9:00 am

Mr. William Beausang:

I think the IMF was painting a picture for us and certainly identifying areas in which we needed to up our game, and we have done so. It was a very collaborative and collegial exercise. When the Deputy talks about it, they made recommendations and those recommendations relate to very important parts of public financial management. However, not every recommendation that an international body makes in the course of looking at an issue over a week or two, when it is looked at further, is going to be easy to implement.