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- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: On a light note, on the two or three occasions when I stood in for the Chairman, I was accused of running long meetings. We commenced the meeting nine hours and 20 minutes ago and I think the Chairman will beat the record. I have a number of questions. I found today's meeting very revealing - but not in a good way. I believe the Department of Education and Skills has had a bad today as...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: That is a third cousin. Are there any for the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board, outside of what has been-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: I am not sure what that answer means.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: That is what I mean, there was nothing to declare. I asked a question earlier on to two other ETBs around ICT school grants and the percentage that would be used by schools or used in any way centrally. The ETBs said that in one case it was 100% and in another case it was 90%. I pose the same question to the ETBs here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: Nothing is used centrally. Okay. There was a query earlier from Deputy MacSharry, who is probably at home in Sligo four or five hours at this stage, requesting information on board members' travel and subsistence payments for the last years. I would like to extend that query to the chief executives and directors of all the ETBs since their inauguration in 2013, across the board. I have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: I appreciate that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: Okay. If I interrupt Ms McGeever I am not being rude. As we are all aware we are caught for time all the time. If I interrupt the witness it is purely for that. Please appreciate that. I am trying to help in this regard. I accept that this situation is not of the Tipperary ETB's making but it has to fund part of it and pay for components of this. It is rather odd that we have a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: Can we evaluate how much that cost is?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: How many staff does the Tipperary ETB pay for at the centre?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: How long has this been going on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: So it has gone on for a few months.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: May I make a suggestion that may be helpful? Sometimes we can help witnesses. I propose that the committee writes to Tusla to ask for an explanation on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: I shall now move on to the chief executive. The witness is aware that I have asked a number of questions about head offices. In Tipperary the ETB has a head office in Nenagh and a sub office in Clonmel. Which of the two is Ms McGeever's base or office?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: Which is Ms McGeever's assigned office?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: Which is Ms McGeever's office?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: Which is Ms McGeever's assigned office, if I could put it that way?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: It is a very simple question. Which office is Ms McGeever assigned to? Everyone is assigned to some office I presume.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: The Secretary General, who is sitting in front of me, wrote to me that " ... it is the expectation and understanding of the Department that each Chief Executive would be headquartered in the head office ...". The Minister wrote to me and said that "... an estimate of time allocation would be: Nenagh (20%)". I asked the two previous witnesses, the chief executive of SOLAS and the Secretary...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: Perhaps the Secretary General might verify if that is that case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Alan Kelly: The important point is about the head office. I shall move on now and maybe we could come back to that issue. Directors were appointed for ETBs across the board and three directors were appointed, like every other ETB, in Tipperary. Where are they based?