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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: The Department is open to that. The Deputy has got a "yes" on that one.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: We have a special meeting on this but Mr. Ó Foghlú can answer that one quick question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: I will address the Accounting Officer on that point. In section 6.5 on page 39 of the appropriation account, he deals with, under the redress scheme, the issue of the contingent liability. Many payments were made up to the end of 2015. There are still some outstanding and categorised as a contingent liability. My question relates to amounts that are expected to be paid by the institutions...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: In other words, the Department is telling us that the amounts not yet paid by the religious institutions are not even factored into or included or recorded in its accounts as amounts to be received at any stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: That is fine. If money is due, it is an asset. The Department has made a decision that this money is not due because if it came to the conclusion that it was due, it would be recorded as an asset. The Department has come to the conclusion it is not due and, therefore, it is not an asset. It might be a contingent asset; therefore it will not be recorded. Who arrived at the decision that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: The Department has figures for outstanding amounts that are due to it and recorded as an asset. I am not talking about this being a contingent asset. Does the Department not consider the amount that is due to be paid by the institutions as an amount actually due? If it believes it is due and has to provide that it might not get it all, we are into a different question. However, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Is it recorded as a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: How much?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: What is the name of that account?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Is it the subject of the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Is the amount that is due on the State's balance sheet?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Because we do not really believe it is due.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: So there is a legal commitment in respect of the earlier amounts, but no such commitment for the second amounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Are the amounts due on the first half of that recorded as a legal debt in the State's balance sheet?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. Ó Foghlú is the Accounting Officer and should know this. I will be straight up. Mr. Ó Foghlú does not know if the Department has something recorded in its accounts as an asset or not. I do not mind him getting the help of the Comptroller and Auditor General, but Mr. Ó Foghlú is the Accounting Officer who presents the accounts to him for audit. Let us get...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Is the first one a debt due to the Department? Mr. Ó Foghlú is saying the second one is not. It is extraordinary that, 15 years after this agreement was reached, Mr. Ó Foghlú cannot answer the question as to whether that debt is legally due to the State and whether it is shown on the State's balance sheet. I could not think of a more basic question at the end of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Sorry, we will not go into this. We will come back to it. We will want exact answers. If it is legally due, it should be on the State's balance sheet. If somebody feels that it is legally due but that it is not really going to be paid and decides not to include it, we want to know who arrived at that decision within the Department to exclude a legally payable debt and not to include it on...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: I think Mr. Ó Foghlú gets the point. We will want exact clarification on this before he returns to the committee. We want that sent us in advance. We will park that for today, but I think Mr. Ó Foghlú knows we want that specifically laid out for us before he comes to deal with that special report. We will come back to it on that day.