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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The Department recruits people from outside.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: A body of work needs to be done with all 31 local authorities. Is there a plan of work each year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Is the record in this area good? We often see delays but it is improving, as we saw in the VEC sector. Is there a problem with accounts being done on time by local authorities?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: What is the worst and what is the best?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is, October of the same year.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Are there any emerging issues?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: What common issues are emerging?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Did any issues arise relating to internal audit in local authorities in 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: And they would be brought to the attention of councillors in due course.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that and we get this every week. Are the processes working? Are there enough staff in place? What are the common issues, if any, that are emerging year after year? The issue of procurement arises at each of our weekly meetings. It is a serious issue if internal audit has a lack of staff or other resources. Can Ms Maguire state that the 31 local authorities are okay with...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I know that. Are they sufficiently resourced?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I know that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Do certain local authorities not have sufficient staff to carry out their internal audit functions? What are the recurring themes other than procurement? I would be delighted to hear that there is none but a sizeable amount of money is involved and we are looking at governance and procedures here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: What does that mean?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I am trying to identify any gaps of which we should be aware. Last week, a group indicated that all of its governance procedures were in place but that did not stop what happened, which was not very good.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: It has published a report recently. Where is it available?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That would be worth looking at.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The audit committee needs to work more closely with the head of internal audit. What other issues have emerged?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: How often has it arisen and for how long have the vacancies to which Mr. McCarthy refers been in existence?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. John McCarthy is from the Department. I am asking him what has been drawn to his attention. I support local authorities and I wish they had more power but we need governance and we need assurance that procedures are in place.