Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Public Accounts Committee
City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements
9:00 am
Ms Carol Hanney:
I will just briefly say that what I have learned, in my 43 years of public service, is that the procedure is your friend. So the code of governance, the guidelines or the circular letter is the thing that we stick to. We sometimes like to think that as educators we have noble philosophies about reaching the educationally needy and so on but we have to balance that with, as I said earlier on, doing things right. The procedures and processes are very clear. They are very clearly laid out by the Department. We are working together, I think very well, as a sector at the moment to endeavour really our very effort to implement those procedures. Sticking to the book, boring as it might seem, keeps us out of trouble.
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