Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills
12:50 pm
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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It is not the first time that the Department got wrong information. Blaming a system can sometimes be the easy option but sometimes there can be a culture of failure within an organisation. We have seen that before - quite a lot - in society. It is bit more difficult to detect but it is a lot more poisonous. One wonders if there comes a point when the Department has to decide to step in and send someone down to the VEC and find out what is going on.