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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) Marc MacSharry: Is that what happened? Is it the practice in the public service that if an individual is held in high esteem, a meeting would not be held in his or her absence?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Yes, but the work does not stop. Does Mr. Fraser appreciate that was a failing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Notwithstanding this person's fine reputation, and not wishing to impugn it and the esteem in which he is held, it was decided that the ship would not proceed until he was ready. That would seem to me to be poor practice in terms of a way to run our country. Does Mr. Fraser agree?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: It is a bit more than a matter of opinion. It is a matter of public funds, oversight and having the job done. I would hate to think that if I, Mr. Fraser, the Comptroller and Auditor General or the Chairman were absent, the work of the Oireachtas would come to a halt no matter how high or low the esteem in which I or others may be held. Does Mr. Fraser agree?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Never mind the circumstances. This is nothing to do with the reason the person was indisposed. The fact is the person was indisposed. Whether that was due to being on holidays, ill or wherever else, that does not matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: It does not matter. I am not interested in whether the person was on holidays. Deputy Connolly made the point very clearly earlier. The fact is, when the chairman was missing the committee did not do anything for nearly three years. Against the backdrop of the letter Mr. Fraser sent to the committee last week, that is a problem. Like Deputy Murphy I take the view that, leaving aside the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Would that not be a basic prerequisite? Expertise in gardening would not tick the box for a member of an audit committee. Perhaps it would be good if he or she were a chartered accountant.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Are there any accountants on the audit committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Is the chair an accountant?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: What is his expertise in auditing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: For which Department or body?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: I am sorry. I must have missed that. He is a former Accounting Officer but he is not an accountant.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: He could be an accountant.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Mr. Fraser was aware that he had substantial experience of auditing. In what area of auditing did he have substantial experience?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: He was not the auditor.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Are they not?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Who goes on audit committees then?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Is there an internal audit in the Comptroller and Auditor General’s office?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Are many of its members accountants?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: In Mr. McCarthy's experience, do audit committees tend to have accountants on them?