Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:00 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
There are two parts to this exercise. One is to get a handle on what is out there. The second is to ensure that the system does not permit this to happen again. When one looks now at our staff accounts system, a person when making a purchase order is required to put that on the capital assets register. Those purchases are assessed by the asset management unit now to ensure this happens. There is a system in place now to prevent this from happening in the future. It requires the expenditure to be brought to account as a capital asset.