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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)
John McGuinness: I welcome Mr. Ned Costello, chief executive of the Irish Universities Association. I invite Mr. Seamus McCarthy, Comptroller and Auditor General, to introduce Special Report 78: Matters Arising out of Education Audits.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. McCarthy. We now turn to the opening statements and I call on Dr. Hugh Brady of UCD.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: May we publish Dr. Brady’s opening statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: I call on Dr. Prendergast to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: May we publish Dr. Prendergast’s opening statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: I now call on Professor Brian MacCraith.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: May we publish the statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: I call on Dr. Ruaidhrí Neavyn of Waterford Institute of Technology.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: May we publish Dr. Neavyn's statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: It does not come across.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Perhaps Dr. Neavyn will tell the committee what company was responsible for auditing the accounts between 2001 and 2011.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: In terms of the audit, what happens within the institute? Who presents the accounts to whom?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: In terms of the institute's internal audit, were none of Mr. McFeely's concerns highlighted in the context of good governance and how the institute is operated? The institute spent a significant amount of money on taxi fares, flowers, marketing, hospitality and so on. How is it that all the tendering processes were ignored and this was accepted in the context of the audit and internal audit...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Aside from Mr. McFeely's concerns, I am interested in the concerns expressed directly to the president. Were those concerns not expressed to anyone else in-house? Were the financial reports for each of those years signed off by the audit committee before going anywhere else for examination? All of these problems involving scandalous use of taxpayers' money and the concerns around them seem...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Who signed off on the internal audit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: I do not necessarily want the name. I am curious because the accounts went to an internal audit committee and it did not see it fit to raise the issues that concerned Mr. McFeely or did not see them. The committee did not see the lack of due process or procedure around the purchase of all of these listed goods and services. As members of such a committee, the people involved over that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Where did the accounts go from there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: What did the governing body do with them? Did they just accept the accounts as signed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Who was that?