Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 749: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the membership of his Department's audit committee; the chairperson and the number of occasions on which it has met in the past 12 months and the agenda of the meetings. [32567/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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This Department's audit committee comprises the following five members: Mr. Jerry Killeen, former financial controller and company secretary, Dublin Port Company; Mr. Eric Embleton, former assistant secretary, CMOD, Department of Finance; Mr. Donal O'Donoghue, former county manager, Galway County Council; Mr. Noel O'Connell, director, Local Government Audit Service; and Mr. Michael Canny, assistant secretary, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Mr. Jerry Killeen chairs the committee.

The committee has met on four occasions in the past 12 months. The agenda of the meetings over that period covered the following issues: strategic audit planning; the internal audit business plan; progress on the annual audit plan; the 2004 annual report of the audit committee; risk management in the Department; procurement procedures; liaison with the Comptroller and Auditor General's Office; and the staffing position of the internal audit unit.