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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: The ETB has therefore made, after a very ropey start-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are certainly not making excuses or allowances, but it was the start of the three counties coming together. Yes, the ETB had difficulty, and it is a tale of woe to read the audit opinion on it. There is no point in saying it any other way, is there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is the reason we had the four different ETBs here before Christmas with the Department. I think it was a very useful exchange from everybody's point of view. We had SOLAS here as well, whose representatives I commend. They carried themselves very well that day. Arising from what we have seen in the education sector and the special reports about the timeliness, that is the sole reason...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is having an effect. I hear them giving out about me. Next is Limerick and Clare ETB, in respect of which there was a clear audit opinion. Attention is drawn to suspected fraud estimated at €148,000. I presume that is with the Garda Síochána.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Attention is further drawn to weakness in the board's control over post-leaving certificate numbers and delays in preparation of the financial statements. Waterford and Wexford ETB's 2016 accounts received a clear audit opinion. Attention is drawn to a material level - €836,000 - of non-compliance with national procurement rules in respect of contracts that operated in 2016. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: That includes Kildare and Wicklow ETB.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are whittling them down but we are still going to watch the matter carefully. The next one is City of Dublin ETB. It received a clear audit opinion, but attention is drawn to a material level of non-compliance with national procurement rules, and the late review of the effectiveness of internal controls. Galway and Roscommon ETB received a clear audit opinion, but attention is drawn...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: When we see, for example, the figure of €894,000, that is not just an audit sample. It would be hoped it is the full picture.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Which figure does the Comptroller and Auditor General include here, his sample or what the ETB identifies?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: In other words, in this case-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: It could be multiples of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. McCarthy to do the committee a favour. Will he write a note to us on this issue and how it works from his point of view? We regularly hear about this "non-compliance with national procurement rules", and it is emerging that, while the figures often seem massive, they might not even be the complete figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will Mr. McCarthy write us an information note on the system? Sometimes it is complete, but then internal audit should be doing a report each year-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----for him to review as part of his audit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: The HSE is so big, that is all that the office can do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: I do not mean to be flippant but sometimes when we see the HSE's report, the figures in there are hit and miss depending on the system.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is on our work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come to that on the work programme. Deputy Connolly reminded me that I skipped over the Kerry ETB financial statement, which has a clear audit opinion. Again, it has a material level €1.1 million of non-compliance with national procurement rules in respect of goods and services. The next item is the Institute of Technology, Tralee. It has a clear audit opinion. Attention...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: The college is catching up.