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:

Our own Secretary General constantly highlights this point to me. He believes that the reporting is fragmented at present. In the context of updating the legislative framework more generally as we look at improving fiscal transparency, I think certainly more consolidation - our experience to date is that the more we consolidate to the extent we can, the better it is - is very much a recommendation. That financial reporting would be regarded as fragmented does not suit our purposes and certainly does not suit the accountability and transparency objectives that we have.