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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Just a second. It was a case of no internal audit work, no audit committee and relying totally on the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It did not meet. In regard to the date-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: In regard to the date of the accounts, which has been explained, I want to go back a bit to find out why there was a delay. They were signed off in September of this year as opposed to earlier. Again, what was the reason for that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Okay. Is there nothing unusual about that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: When was the new chairperson appointed in 2017?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: He was not appointed in 2017.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: One second, I can only go on what I see. Mr. Fraser said somewhere that the chair was to be appointed in 2017. Was the chair appointed in 2017?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: This does not makes sense to me. I am looking at the accounts for 2016 and I am looking at Mr. Fraser's comments on the accounts, which are in 2017, and the chairperson was to be appointed in 2017.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Can Mr. Fraser clarify for me the money, over €2 million, relating to the Office of Public Works? It went up every year from 2013 in the expenditure-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Can Mr. Fraser clarify that for me?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. We will take the Chairman's time while-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I did not quite catch what that €2 million plus that is rising every year is spent on by the Office of Public Works. Gardening?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The spend relates to staff as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to go back to why we are here. I am finishing. I have less than a minute left. We have had various organisations before us, including the Garda in Templemore, and we put them under serious pressure in respect of internal audits and audit committees. We did so with the vocational education committees, VECs. That is part of our job. Mr. Fraser is here today, and this has not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Fraser to tell me what is in place now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The audit committee has met three times. When?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Fraser should know the exact dates. We are talking about responsibility here. We are talking about governance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Sorry. We are going from there being no audit committee to there being an audit committee. How often has it met?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Since February.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is from February onwards. There were no meetings before then.