What he also has a problem with is the auditor general. Espat says her new audit doesn't dig deep enough, and it doesn't examine the most important ministry with any depth:...
Hon. Julius Espat
"I believe the auditor general has not gone far enough. I believe that you have the biggest budget in all the ministries is the Ministry of Finance. That has not been audited at all, not even mentioned- one section with the GST was mentioned. I believe that even the analysis that was done in the ministry of Works was insignificant. You are talking about 1.2 million dollars being lost when they only analyzed 1.7 million. So of 1.7 million dollars the auditor general is reporting that 1.2 has been lost as revenue and that sends up a lot of signals because the Ministry of Work's main expenditure is not the purchase of tires, it is the awarding of contracts throughout the entire country and no mention has been made of that and no analysis has been made of that."
Marisol Amaya - Reporter
"Sir, some of the things have you've mentioned actually go back to when your party was in power. The report does speak to that. So when you say that UDP's are the ones favored the same thing was happening under a PUP administration so what's to be said about that?"
Hon. Julius Espat
"Well if it is wrong then and it is wrong now, we don't want it to be wrong in the future we want to correct it."
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