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- 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. Ó Foghlú's reaction to this? We vote money to the HEA through his Department for allocation to individual colleges. What we have heard in the past ten minutes, as well as the findings of the report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, reveals governance issues not only in the NCAD but also in 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: Who informed 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: The HEA first informed the Department in 2013.
- 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 it come as a surprise that the same problem existed between 2009 and 2013 but the HEA did not tell the Department about 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: Can Mr. Ó Foghlú return to my question about the gap that existed between 2009 and 2013? Am I correct to say he was not informed by the HEA about the problems that existed during that period?
- 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 the Department make to the HEA when it was told about the problem in 2013?
- 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. Ó Foghlú think it appropriate that between 2009 and 2013 the HEA did not inform 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: What action has the Department taken in respect of the HEA if it was not satisfied?
- 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 world outside of the public service, if I was responsible for €80 million which was channelled through me to an intermediary and on to the end user, and the intermediary did not tell me for four years that a problem existed with the end user, to say I would be dissatisfied is putting it mildly. I would certainly be looking for a change in terms of the intermediary.
- 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: That is it. No more action is required as far as the Department is concerned.
- 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. Ó Foghlú think it sufficient that the HEA, with a budget that is as large as some small countries, at €1.2 billion, employs two accountants?
- 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: That is not the question I asked.
- 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 will ask Mr. McGonagle two questions before concluding. Between 2004 and 2010, when the Comptroller and Auditor General could not sign off on the accounts, the NCAD's audit committee was meeting in a haphazard way occasionally, to put it at best. Is there any reason the audit committee did not take a more proactive role?
- 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: Yes, but I asked about the audit committee.
- 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: The reason we are here is that from 2009 up to now there has been a trail of destruction in respect of certified accounts from the institution. We are trying to find out why that is the case and what has happened to make it different.
- 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: Is the board fit for purpose?
- 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: But the systems are not?
- 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: Whose fault is 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: Who is responsible for the systems and practices in the college?
- 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: Who in the college?