Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
-----savings were accruing and that there was a plan for how they were to be used. There is, however, a formal process and the difficulty from my point of view is trying to audit it. If there is not a formal sanction, then, technically, the moneys should have been surrendered rather than transferred. This is the difficulty I am left in.
I have to report if moneys have not been used for the purposes intended.