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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Has the committee some unfinished business with the college from the last time it was before the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: It is quite unsatisfactory that we are getting the 2012 accounts when you requested 2013.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: When will the 2014 accounts be expected?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Regarding the issues in relation to governance, procurement, documentation procedures and processes, are they all in place? Is the college catching up on paperwork that it has, or is it that it does not have the paperwork?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Is it possible for the committee to get a note on the big issues, or are they contained in the statements?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Professor Niamh Brennan?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Of DDDA fame?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: And the person who did not come before a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: That is correct. Maybe when Professor Brennan comes before the committee to discuss the National College of Art and Design we can extend our questions to cover the past.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: That is the get-out clause.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The Deputy might get a chance to look at those.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Could the Clerk circulate the note from the last meeting about the letter and the note about the accounts for the information of members? I will now turn to Teagasc. Attention is drawn to its disclosure of a settlement with the Revenue Commissioners in relation to the non-payment of VAT amounting to €399,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The disclosure was its own?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Would Teagasc be similar to a company, or similarly the HSE, it that it makes returns and is inspected by the Revenue Commissioners?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: We will note all those accounts. With regard to the work programme of the committee, in the next few weeks we are to meet with the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Attorney General, the Office of the Chief State Solicitor, the Office of Government Procurement, Bord na gCon and the Department of Finance, and on 10 December we will meet Waterford Institute of Technology and Cork Institute...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: That is fine. We will ask the Clerk to flag that to the office so that its representatives are absolutely clear about what is expected when they come here. Deputy Connaughton raised an issue with regard to the meeting between the Department's procurement section and the group that came before the committee. Did we get a report back on that? I think they met one group but did not meet the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: So you will raise that at the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The work programme is agreed. I will now turn to any other business.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: On the day of the committee meeting NAMA representatives had a list but they did not provide it. It was to be provided to the committee the following week. There is a list in front of us on the screen-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: -----which sets out the different figures for you.