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

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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It would be helpful to get an update to the committee as soon as possible regarding what is happening here. We are starting to see a pattern with this particular VEC and the way it operates. It would be good to keep the pressure on from the committee's side so that we can be clear as to what the money has been spent on or, if there are irregularities, how they are being addressed by the Department. We must have confidence that the VEC is being chased up in a timely fashion so that it does not become another legacy issue that we simply cannot deal with because the relevant people are no longer there.