"But we won't know the full facts of this case until it goes through full transparent judicial process, once investigations are finalised."Ms Spencer said a sample of transactions in the department were examined on a yearly basis as part of auditing checks.
"We check that they've been incurred and certified within appropriate delegations and appropriations on a sample, so we test controls," she said. Ms Spencer said that when signatures of authorised delegates were seen on invoices, that was deemed to be enough to satisfy requirements. "We don't go back and actually check further to see whether those goods have been received," she said.The invoices which featured in the existing charges were not picked up.
"There are thousands of transactions obviously, with $1.3 billion in expenditure going through that department," she said.Ms Spencer said she was confident all that could have been done to prevent fraud within the department was done."Audit can never be everywhere, if people want audit to check every transaction and every action of every public sector entity, it will duplicate the costs of public administration.
More heads should roll !!! $1.3bil budget means 1.7% has been rorted. My guess is way more and wide spread over many years and little in the way of on the ground checks. Heaven defend that someone actually leave the office and see if the work was done!! Idiots all
Yay for the government. Let’s give them more power and even more of our money.
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