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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: Okay. We were given the briefing note for UCD of its income. Direct Exchequer funding, State grants, grants in lieu of fees, State-funded research, deferred capital and the student fees amounts to 80% of its total income. Commercial income is 15% and non-State funded research programmes is 5%. From the taxpayer-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: No, I am including the student fees. We will call the paying public-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: Some of those would be fees from private sources.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: Okay. All I am saying is that €700 million is an excessive figure and, in the run up to the Estimates for the coming year, that figure should be looked at more closely. As that figure is a year out of date, and given the recent audit, is there any way we could get a pen picture of the current position through the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: In regard to the cash balances, I find it extraordinary that the universities are so well off while the primary and secondary schools are experiencing such cuts. I know they will say they have had cuts, reductions in salaries, reductions in grant support and that student numbers have gone up. That is fine but that cash balance would be the envy of most other State organisations.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: I know it will all be spent in the coming months. I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: I have no doubt it will all be spent, but I am just saying that so many other State organisations are suffering from cashflow difficulties and paying interest whereas the universities are sitting on this, even though it is only temporary.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: I have one final question relating to WIT which I should have asked earlier. Was it the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General that conducted the annual audit or was it a private audit? I know Mr. McCarthy was not in charge during 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, but what did his office's audit uncover or did it uncover these issues? After its audit, did the office write directly to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am disappointed to have to say this, but while I understand it was some years ago, I am very disappointed that the audits conducted by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2006, 2007 and 2008 did not pick up on these issues. We have Waterford Institute of Technology here today to answer questions on what went on in those years. Now, however, we find that the taxpayers'...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: I mean historically, of course. I hope the Comptroller and Auditor General gets my point.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research Funding (2 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason Ireland performed so poorly in securing funding for science research projects from the European Research Council which recently awarded €800 million to 503 applicants of which only four were Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41658/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (2 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health when an appeal for a full medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41459/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (3 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the report in relation to the future of Abbeyleix District Hospital, St Brigid’s Hospital Shaen, Portlaoise and other community nursing homes in the midlands region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42335/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (3 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will expedite the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42350/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Job Creation Issues (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the success to date of plans announced in July 2011 to create an additional net 10,000 new jobs in the Irish Financial Service Centre; the progress made on promoting Islamic Finance products and the Green IFSC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42300/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out in tabular form the starting salary grade for a newly employed Administrative Officer in the Civil Service for each year from 2005 to 2012; the available allowances to a newly employed Administrative Officer in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42523/12]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Will the rapporteur be a member of the committee or an external party?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I have three small points to make. Deputy Donohoe touched on the point that the representatives of Garda members and Defence Forces personnel are not covered by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and consequently must appear separately. Second, I believe the committee should meet in the week the Dáil is not scheduled to sit because I believe members must finish their work considerably...