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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Is there a service level agreement between the Department and Pobal for that, in terms of how it is monitored and measured and in respect of the way in which activity is quantified?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Does that agreement stipulate how much? Is there a rate per application? How is activity driven through that agreement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Is the service fee a flat fee?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: There is a flat-rate fee of €184,000 and the balance is based on activity. That means Pobal did nothing last year, if we are saying €200,00 is for administration.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: No, no. I just want to get this right here now. We are saying €200,000 was the administration fee. Mr. McCarthy stated €184,000 is the flat-rate service level agreement fee and the balance is on activity, am I correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: That means, in 2016, if €200,000 was the allocation, Pobal did nothing for the year.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Does Mr. McCarthy accept that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Clearly, there was no activity. I would have serious reservations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Is it correct that these community groups are going to Pobal getting information in terms of applications for various different funding streams?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Therefore, it does relate to activity.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: It sounds like it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Why has the Department a flat fee of €184,000 then, if Pobal only runs schemes when the Department runs them? If the Department decides to run no measures, does that mean Pobal still gets €184,000?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: This is incredible stuff.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: The service level agreement or MOU, call it what you will, under which the Department is operating has expired.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: This is terrible. When one talks about communities on the ground, this is very serious.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: That is what is frustrating me. As I say, this is not personal. Community groups are coming to us where there are gaps that have not got funding in a very difficult time and yet we see that the Department provides a flat-rate fee, it has no service level agreement in place and activity outside of that seems to have been non-existent last year. The Department has no chargeable policy for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: They are not prepared to do it now, if the Department does not have any agreement with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 73. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of an orthodontic consultant for counties Longford and Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6085/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (7 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 49. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made in County Westmeath and the midlands regions under the regional action plan for jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5768/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Data (7 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 70. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs supported by Enterprise Ireland in County Westmeath; the steps being taken to build on this figure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5769/18]