Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Collection of Pension Contributions due to the Exchequer
Chapter 3 - Control of Funding for Voted Public Services
Chapter 5 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 99: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 100: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2016
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Mr. Robert Watt:
-----by a Department. If a Department did not have its accounts ready by Easter, the Comptroller and Auditor General might give the Deputy a view as to what would happen. He would make a phone call. Whether it was a case of me phoning him or him phoning me, we just would not tolerate it. In any event, I just do not quite understand why they cannot be prepared.
The reality is that we have got the number up in terms of the completion. By the end of 2017, 99.6% of the total turnover had been audited. There is an issue about the presentation, which the Chair mentioned earlier and which we need to work on. It is difficult to get 100% compliance in any area.