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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: They are all signed off.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: It is the same signature on each one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Whose is the second signature?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: On the Bell Airways flight, there is just a reference and on the other there seem to be signatures.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Who was to give us the information? We were told yesterday someone was to contact the committee to give us all the information before this meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Could that be confirmed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Furthermore, I was not informed of any of this. That is why the witnesses' opening statement took me by surprise. I am sure this can be said for the rest of the committee members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Could I intervene here because I want to inform the meeting of something, which I will do in a moment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: In the course of our questions here, I challenged Mr. Boland about his opening statement. Unfortunately, I did not call first on Deputy Donohue because I was shocked by it not addressing the issues. I based the questions in my contribution on the information that we had at that time. We were not aware of the statement that Mr. Boland then read out; nobody was. The other matter of which we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: It needs to be put on the record that this is contained in it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I understand fully.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I understand that. However, the point has to be made, in regard to the statement, that we did not know at the beginning of the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: The second point I want to make is that the clerk to the committee checked the e-mails in the course of our exchange and the following e-mail came in at 5.21 p.m. yesterday to the general e-mail box of the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: No. This has come into the general e-mail box of the Committee of Public Accounts. It is not addressed to anyone. It states:I wish to make a correction to a mis-statement in a report referred to at the PAC hearing on 27/9/12. The report in question, produced by Deloitte, indicates that WIT paid an invoice to Bell Airways in respect of the charter of a plane to transport a visitor from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: We accept what Mr. Boland has said - it will show on the record. I believe it was also stated last week that while Dr. Port's name was mentioned no impropriety of any kind was attached to him. I believe Deputy Donohoe may have said so last week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I have a question for Seán Ó Foghlú and Mr. Boland. When we return and have a representative from Waterford Institute of Technology, Mr. Boland representing the HEA and Seán Ó Foghlú representing the Department, perhaps one single person might be prepared to present the detail and provide the complete answers to the questions that have been raised and remain...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I call the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Given that we will conduct a further hearing, we will leave special report No. 78 open. Is that agreed? Agreed. I thank the witnesses for attending.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
John McGuinness: Will the Taoiseach ensure the quick passage of the Construction Contracts Bill 2010 in order that it can be enacted to provide the necessary protection? In the spirit of the Bill, will he ensure the contract at Loreto secondary school in Kilkenny where the contractor has gone broke and 160 jobs are at stake-----