Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General

9:00 am

Ms Colette Drinan:

As I mentioned in the opening statement, the €291,000 relates to our practice of annually budgeting for an amount that would allow us to get in external expertise should we require it for performance audit. It is quite difficult to assess------