Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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591. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff in her Department engaged on the audit of funded programmes; the level of qualifications of each, for example, part or fully qualified accountants; and the number of on-site audits carried out for each of the programmes managed by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2018. [11481/19]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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There are three staff members in situ in the Internal Audit Unit in the Department:

1) The Head of Internal Audit – CIMA Qualified (Professional Accountant Grade 1)

2) Higher Executive Officer – Certificate in Audit Skills (IPA) with 4/5 years of experience working in the Internal Audit Unit in the Department.

3) Executive Officer – Accountant Technician (ATI) and Certificate in Audit Skills (IPA)

All staff in the unit are involved in the audits of funded programmes.

Internal Audit also has access to internal audit services provided by Internal Audit Consultants under the management of the Head of Internal Audit. These consultants were procured under the OGP (Office of Government Procurement) Framework for the provision of Accounting, Audit and Financial Services. As part of the requirements a senior consultant is appointed for each project and is required to be a qualified accountant/auditor.

Oversight of the Internal Audit function is provided by the Department’s Audit Committee.

A list of audits completed by Internal Audit in the Department is listed in Table A:

Table A