Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion
1:50 pm
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
They talk about its being provided in accordance with the terms of the scheme. In Ms Kerins's letter to the Department of Justice and Equality, she says there is not an Exchequer grant to organisations to provide services but according to the Department of Finance it is a grant scheme. Ms Kerins says it is not appropriate for the Department of Justice and Equality to seek to influence the operations of a private body by insisting that its earned income be applied to certain areas. When Ms Kerins made that point to the Department of Justice and Equality, was she saying that the Department could not tell Rehab whether it could spend this money on administrative services, IT procurement, bank interest fees, professional fees or advertising, as she had been spending the money prior to that point in time?
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