Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 December 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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If there is insufficient information in the minutes, we can come back and ask for further information. Let us test some of those minutes and see how we get on with them. We can certainly come back and ask for further information.

That is the end of correspondence and we now move on to statements on accountancy since the last meeting. There are four on the screen. There is the carbon fund clear audit opinion, the University College Dublin clear audit opinion and the usual issue about the deferred pensions in the education sector and payments totalling €5.4 million to 75 suppliers for goods and services where procurement procedures did not comply with Government procurement guidelines. We will group them all together. Next is the Limerick and Clare ETB, clear audit opinion with the same issue of a material level of non-compliance with national procurement rules. There is also Laois and Offaly ETB, clear audit opinion and attention is drawn to the disclosure statement on internal control that Laois and Offaly ETB would welcome an increase in internal audit resources. We covered that last week.

Here we go again. UCD and Limerick and Clare ETB are not in compliance with public procurement guidelines. Is there any information on the statement of internal control in the accounts?