Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015

9:00 am

Dr. Deirdre Keyes:

This is one of the projects that is currently under investigation by the Garda.

We have had the Dr. Thorn report to ascertain the answers to those questions. The role of the employer representatives is relevant in terms of the acceleration of that project and the public works contract. We have tightened our internal controls in respect of that issue to ensure there can be no acceleration outside the contract without going through the employer representative. In turn, the employer representative will go to the Department and we get authorisation to do that.