Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements
9:00 am
Mr. John Hogan:
The simplest way of saying it is to mention that when we carried out a review in September 2016 of how our functions were comparing with the code of governance, we found we were generally compliant. We did it again in 2017. I also initiated a board self-evaluation programme. We looked at what we were doing. We found a couple of things we need to work on. We have not yet finished our statement of strategy. We have not developed a new programme for scholarships. We are still using the programmes that were there in the VEC era. Other than that, we believe we have done everything as it should be statutorily done. We have set up a finance committee and an audit committee. All the other things have been done. We have done our annual report. We have the power to borrow money. We have adopted an annual service plan. We have adopted a management risk framework and a code of conduct. We think we have audited our compliance with the code of governance.
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