Health Ministry answers to PAC for overpayments

Permanent Secretary Leslie Cadogan was on Monday called to explain overpayments by the Health Ministry as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) continued to probe findings of the 2010 Auditor General’s report.

The report cited the ministry’s fuel purchases, noting that there were overpayments to GuyOil totalling $3.176 million, which resulted in an overstatement of the Appropriation Account.  Cadogan, however,