Derek Keating (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)

Question 67: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to establish a new unit in his Department based on the Auditor General's office of the city of Toronto, Canada, the functions of such office through legislation will have a mandate to access audit projects to identify areas of compliance, financial and programme value for money audits with investigative powers of a forensic nature including fraudulent activities to oversee the work of external auditors, to examine problems and carry out special assignments identified by the Auditor General, to establish a fraud and waste hotline programme in the department, this auditor general will have day to day access to records of all public expenditure sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28145/11]

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