Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 20 May 2004
106 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he has appointed an audit committee for his Department; its members, charter, number of meetings to date; if it has issued any reports to him or to the Secretary General. [15053/04]
View answerThe Department of Finance has had an audit committee for a number of years. It was reconstituted at the beginning of 2003 and the current membership is as follows: Mr. Michael Flynn, chairperson — director of audit, Department of Agriculture and Food; Mr. Peter Crilly — director of audit, Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited; Ms Anne Vaughan — principal officer, Department of Social and Family Affairs; Mr. Aidan Dunning — assistant secretary, Department of Finance; Ms Judith Brady — principal officer, Department of Finance. The audit committee operates under a charter under which a minimum of four meetings are held annually. It met five times in 2003 and its second meeting of 2004 will be held in June.
The new committee last year presented an annual report to the Secretary General of the Department for 2002 and will shortly present the report for 2003. In addition, reports on individual audits carried out under the internal audit unit's work programme are submitted to the Secretary General.
