Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 May 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012

1:40 am

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

Can I just comment? We also now have SOLAS coming into the mix. I will park the fact that SOLAS has come into the mix for the further education and training funding.

The primary function of that section is to allocate - the teachers are allocated separately - the non-teacher pay to the ETBs. To ensure that the governance arrangements are in place through the internal audit systems and so on, we have just now passed new legislation on the ETBs which has now strengthened the responsibilities in relation to internal audit and we have issued guidance on internal audit to the ETBs arising from that, and we have made a number of changes in relation to the ETB audits arising from a number of findings of this committee and from the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General.