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

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I thank Mr. Moran for that answer. My question is that I am looking at a report the summary of which states that four recommendations were made to ensure that we have some level of uniformity in terms of accounting rules and procedures. We have heard from the Comptroller and Auditor General the rationale for that. It is a reasonable question and a straightforward answer would be welcome. Has he a responsibility to implement any of those four recommendations? The answer is "Yes" or "No". If he has a responsibility and they have not been implemented, why have they not been implemented? Am I correct in reading from what he is saying that he has not implemented them, if he does have a responsibility, because of lack of capacity?