Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 June 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
9:30 am
Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Okay. I thank the Mr. McCarthy for that.
On procurement compliance, there the 151 contracts spoken about earlier and €91 million relating to the provision of international protection accommodation. I hear what he said about how we are kind of at the upper end of that budget for this year given the numbers and that is excluding the Ukrainians who are coming into the country. Then there was one contract for €29,000, in excess of that, for the commission of investigation and one contract in relation to €74,000. I heard what was said as well about reforms and note also that "Audits are conducted to DPER/CIIA standards" and "The internal audit function is reviewed periodically". How often is it reviewed?