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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: From my perspective, having read the report and looked into this, those who perpetrated this knew the follow-up and requisite financial checking systems were not being employed by the donors and used this to their advantage. They saw an opportunity, which was partly created by the piecemeal nature of the PRDP as well as the fact that in some cases donors throughout the system, including...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: Before Mr. Rogers answers, I have a further question for him. In 2011, irregularities were discovered in the use of funds in four countries which had previously received grants from the Global Fund which addresses AIDS. The fund identified some €43 million which was not accounted for, of which to date €19 million has been recovered. How much of our money as invested in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: That is fair. Mr. Cooney mentioned Ethiopia and the qualified and unqualified audits in 2009. The figure of 23% qualified audit struck me. Of €27.9 million in Irish Aid funding audited in 2009, €6 million was the subject of qualified audits and an action plan resulted. Can Mr. Cooney set out the progress on foot of the action plan to date?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: The issue arises as to qualified versus unqualified audit. Has there been an improvement from the 7% qualified audit figure across programme countries in 2009?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: In Ethiopia in 2009, the 23% qualified-audit statistic gave rise to the need for an action plan. What was the result of the implementation of the action plan?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: While Mr. Carlos is here-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: Recommendation No. 11 in the Ugandan report, which Mr. Carlos and his unit put together, says that the evaluation and audit section should review its work plan and consider ways to further strengthen its focus on risk areas. Could or should Mr. Carlos have spotted what was going on in Uganda?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: It is the obvious question. Mr. Carlos did not know that receipts and supporting documentation did not exist in some cases relating to financial transactions amounting to millions of euro.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: I am going off the topic here. An article in The Irish Times yesterday dealt with a survey on the pay of chief executives of charities. I noticed that some of the charities are funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. They did not answer the questions in the survey detailing how much people are paid. If it is public money, it is a fair question and they should disclose the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: I mentioned Mozambique. It might have some bearing on the office of Mr. Carlos. I referred to the skills sets that do not exist. Generally, we felt the financial management system is a decent system but is dependent on trained staff to deal with it. If there is one area lacking, it is in that. It does not just apply to the office but throughout the civil service in that country. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: I am talking about the Administration. There are not enough accountants and auditors in the Office of the Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: That is happening wholesale.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John Deasy: I take the point that in ten years in programme countries, with €2 billion spent, €4 million went missing for a short period and we will get the money back in a day or two. I accept that. The report is also very good. It is sufficiently self critical of the systems we had and points to what we need to do. I have faith in how the Department will deal with this and the record...
- Topical Issue Debate: Regional Aid (17 Jan 2013)
John Deasy: I have raised this issue because of comments made by the chief executive of IDA Ireland, Mr. Barry O'Leary, last week. He said that even with regional incentives, it was becoming increasingly difficult to convince companies to invest outside of Dublin or Cork. He was speaking on an occasion when he was announcing a net 6,570 jobs resulting from 145 investments by multinationals. Where...
- Topical Issue Debate: Regional Aid (17 Jan 2013)
John Deasy: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I think we are talking about two different things. The Minister of State spoke about defending the concept of regional aid at European level. The point that Barry O'Leary and I are making is that the existing regional aid guidelines are not working. It is a question of their effectiveness and utility. The guidelines that are being used to...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Aid (17 Jan 2013)
John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies that have qualified for regional aid since 2007; the amounts of aid involved; and the regions of the country that received this aid. [2264/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Aid (17 Jan 2013)
John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications received from companies since 2007 for regional or investment aid; and the categories under which the aid was granted. [2265/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Aid (17 Jan 2013)
John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will increase the amount of regional investment aid for those parts of the country that are experiencing the highest levels of unemployment. [2266/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Aid (17 Jan 2013)
John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the stakeholders he consulted with before making a submission to the EU Commission regarding regional or investment aid. [2267/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Aid (17 Jan 2013)
John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amounts of regional aid that can be applied for in the south-east region. [2268/13]