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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: If the systems were not fit for purpose over a five-year period, surely the management in the college was not fit for purpose either.

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 does not explain the period 2004 to 2009 nor does it explain why every other third level institute, many of whose names are included in the McCarthy report and had question marks hanging over them, is not in the situation in which the NCAD finds itself. That response does not explain the position.

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: Some of the smaller teacher training colleges do not have that structure.

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 does not take from the fact that what we are talking about here is the accounts. We are talking about the systems within the NCAD, its relationship with the HEA, and the HEA's relationship with the Department of Education and Skills, which have been an unmitigated disaster. Nothing was done over five years until the Comptroller and Auditor General decided enough was enough and...

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 thank the Chairman.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: You were never really good at maths.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about the rest?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the progress that is being made to have training in the hospitality sector included in the redesign of the apprenticeship programme under SOLAS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3260/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (27 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick received payment for only one of their nine entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3523/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parking Charges (27 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 335. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be provided to waiving car parking charges for family members and others who have to experience long delays in having loved ones seen at emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3303/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Visiting Teacher Service (27 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review carried out into the visiting teacher service; when the review will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3518/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Security of the Elderly (27 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 521. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the engagement that has taken place between his Department and the community alert organisation in respect of proposed changes to the seniors alert scheme; his plans to bring forward changes to the scheme; if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I meant it in the context of a baseball bat.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Applications (28 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 117. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a capital assistance scheme application in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Limerick will be signed off by his Department's inspector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4019/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Applications (28 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 121. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a capital assistance scheme application in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Limerick will be signed off by his Department's Inspector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4018/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Raidió Teilifís Éireann: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I congratulate Ms Doherty and wish her well in her role. I concur with a much of what she said about RTE, including the many positive aspects of public service broadcasting. The concept of accountability has entered the public arena recently. Members of the Oireachtas have rightly to be accountable for the public's money, including our salaries and expenses. Yet, RTE seems to work in an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Raidió Teilifís Éireann: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Ms Doherty might check the main drive-time radio programme and ask who it is sponsored by.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Raidió Teilifís Éireann: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about the question I asked concerning people's salaries not being disclosed for three years? If it was happening in Irish Water, for instance, RTE would be running "Prime Time" specials from now until kingdom come to get the salaries out of them. Yet there seems to be no difficulty in not releasing someone's salary for three years within the State broadcaster. Surely that is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Raidió Teilifís Éireann: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: This is important, Chairman. That is not the question I asked. As chairperson of the board, does Ms Doherty feel it is acceptable in 2015, given the backdrop, that somebody's salary in the public sector will not be revealed for three years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Raidió Teilifís Éireann: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not think that would be acceptable anywhere else in the public sector.