Seanad debates

Wednesday, 28 May 2003

Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed).

 

The whole approach to this matter should be sensible. The Minister of State must reassure us on this point. Whatever reassurances we have to receive, we must make it clear we are not creating work for consultants. We must ensure we are not saying that in order for an auditor to complete a company set of accounts, he or she has to start employing consultants. That must not be the case. The legislation states it must be on the basis of the information that comes to the auditor during the course of the audit or during the course of non-audit work conducted for the company by the audit company. In other words, we are talking about information they come by in the course of their work generally. That is how the issue must be resolved

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