Deputy John Deasy, Public Accounts Committee chairman, John McGuinness TD, and Comptroller & Auditor General Seamus McCarthy prior to this morning’s private meeting with John Muwanga, Auditor General of Uganda, who uncovered a fraud which included €4 million of Irish aid money in 2012. As a result the Irish Aid programme was suspended and the money subsequently repaid in full. The PAC examines the controls on the Overseas Development Aid budget with the Department of Foreign Affairs on an annual basis, with delegations to two programme countries — Mozambique and Ethiopia — having looked at how risks can be mitigated.
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