Results 3,281-3,300 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Are other colleges in the same situation where the Comptroller and Auditor General is the sole external auditor?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: In the private sector if one cannot certify and stand over a set of accounts, one is struck off. Is it fair to say that we are looking at accounts going back to 2010 with serious questions about them? Does Mr. McCarthy agree that in the private and commercial sector that would not be tolerated?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have a question for Mr. Boland following from what the Comptroller and Auditor General has said. In anyone's estimation, what the HEA, being the funding agency for NCAD, has allowed to happen on its watch is an absolute scandal. Over the past five years or thereabouts, it has pumped approximately €100 million in taxpayers' money into a college that cannot provide a certified set of...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: At no stage did the HEA ask to see a certified set of accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What did it get?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Did the authority inform the Department of Education and Skills?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What response did it get from it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Did the authority formally communicate its concerns to the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does Mr. Boland believe that was a mistake?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Beyond the assurances the authority was getting from the college, which we know has considerable deficiencies, the authority essentially took it upon itself to continue to put money into the college and to continue operating under the existing governance systems without any changes.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: When did the authority become aware of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Since when?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: When was that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Was it 20 years ago, or ten years?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: For the past 20 years, the authority knew there was a financial issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What is Mr. Boland saying to me, so?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: So, since 2009-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: While Mr. Boland knew there were issues?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It did so even though, as the Comptroller and Auditor General pointed out, going back as far as 2000 and 2001, there were 20-month delays in producing a certified set of accounts. In 2008 and 2009, there was a 39-month delay. At no stage did an alarm bell ring within the HEA.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: In his opening statement, Mr. Boland said the HEA was going to introduce something of a performance-based system. Essentially, he is saying it will reward the colleges that do what they should do.