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- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The board normally meets in the council chambers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is a national issue now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: And there are staffing recruitment and retention issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The then chief executive officer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Ó Foghlú said he had to wait for the reports.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Would Mr. Merrick, as chairman of the board, like to comment briefly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Kelly referred to the audit. As we know, the internal audit function is facing challenges and there is external support based in County Cavan. It is a nationwide service although Dublin has yet to be included. Who decides what particular aspect of the organisation an internal audit should examine? If the team travels from County Cavan, how does it know what it is coming to do? What...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: If there is a specific issue in counties Wicklow or Kildare that is not an issue everywhere else, how do the people in County Cavan know what the issue is?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: In the ETB.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The internal audit group, however, is fairly external to the organisation. There is an opportunity for the ETB audit group to make a suggestion but it seems to be fairly external to the board.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: A shared service, however, is not internal to each specific ETB.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is my point exactly. If an issue that emerges in an ETB does not emerge across the board, there does not seem to be a mechanism for that to be identified. We need to examine these three issues nationally but there might be specific issues in an ETB that are not captured by the national audit. If the group does an internal audit in an ETB, there could be a significant problem but it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I can see the value of the national internal audit unit. The problem, however, is the issue that may emerge in an individual ETB due to something going wrong. If the audit committee does not receive the flow of information from an ETB, how does it know something is going on? If it spots something for which it would like internal support, I am sure it would take two years before somebody...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: If it is the case, the Department has taken the ability from the hands of the local ETBs. If an ETB believes there is a particular problem, what can it do?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Department understands my concern. I feel there is a gap in regard to the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will let the witnesses consult for a few moments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Approached on behalf of the ETB, it is a contractual obligation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: They had the legal authority to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Let me ask a question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy should be quick.