REO Clair Singh and several other Region 9 officials on Monday got a tongue lashing from members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) after the Auditor General’s 2010 report on their financial transactions revealed that they were not following financial regulations.
The barrage of criticism began as the committee commenced scrutiny of a discrepancy whereby in 2009, the region made overpayments totalling $1.216 million to 15 employees, 12 of whom were maternity cases. Ronald Harsawack, current Region 8 REO, was the REO of region at the time of the payment.
Singh, in an effort to explain what led to the overpayments, said that the women in
