HSE acknowledges financial governance flaws to the PAC

By Lloyd Mudiwa. The HSE has acknowledged to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the issues identified by its own internal audits and the Comptroller and Auditor-General’s (C&AG) reports into the governance of funds totalling almost €3.4 million paid into an unauthorised account of SIPTU represented significant and unprecedented failures in control and governance. “All of the audits conducted by HSE Internal Audit and the C&AG between 2009 and 2013 identified serious breaches of HSE controls and regulations which resulted from significant financial control, governance and oversight deficiencies and the failure to adhere to existing controls and procedures, rather than…