Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund
1:20 pm
Mr. Joe O'Flynn:
No problem. It was understood the trips were not to be paid for from the levy account. That information did not materialise until the trustees of our union inquired into the assertions being made in relation to the use of the so-called levy fund.
In respect of the involvement of the union in the levy fund, I have detailed clearly that there were some activities relating to training and development. It was to the tune of €68,000 in total over the entire period of years. That would not be big money in the context of it being spread over nine or ten years and in the context of training and development provided for. There would have been no alarm bells rung in our mind in relation to that level of spending. It is a minimum sum of money in terms of training and development.
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