Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
9:00 am
Mr. John Connaghan:
I will make a very brief comment and pass to Mr. Mulvany. During the course of 2017, and with regard to the work of the national compliance unit established, we wrote to all chief executives and chairs of section 38 and section 39 bodies, bringing to their attention the key findings of national and systemic importance that were uncovered through internal audit. It has always been a criticism from this committee that something in one organisation is sorted but downstream we might find some of the exact same issues reoccurring. We have taken that on board. One of our key actions has been to ensure that the learning from internal audits is not just compartmentalised to one organisation but is spread out. We made it an absolute requirement that chairmen and chief executives note these.