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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is the Minister who will ultimately be held accountable by the public in this matter. Mr. Griffin has indicated that nobody was fired as a consequence of what had happened. Are all of the departmental staff who dealt with this matter in the same roles or has any of them been promoted?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has he been promoted?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Where is he now?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does he have an expenditure remit?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has the Department to which he moved been made aware of this matter?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: After serving as Accounting Officer in the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, this individual was moved to another Department. We do not where he is - a little like the racks - and what new role he is performing.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Neither do I.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The taxpayer is out of pocket to the tune of €2 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have been here for all of the meeting. In response to Deputy Derek Nolan, Mr. Griffin said he was confident, based on internal audit reports from the DETI and others, that what had happened here could not happen again. I cannot say I am similarly confident, based on what I have heard today. In fact, I would say all of the INTERREG projects to which Mr. Colgan referred should be examined...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Were they internal audits?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is the nature of auditing that has us here. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform did not hear about this matter until 2011. We do not know whether the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has been told about it. He will probably read about it in tomorrow's newspapers and, for all we know, it might be the first he will have heard of it. It is a shambles....

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Why not?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Based on all of the information we have been given today, or the lack thereof, we are looking at valuations and no valuations, invoices and no invoices, whistleblowers' information not being acted on, actions taken by directors and a clatter of other things. It is an unseemly mess. Does Mr. Griffin agree that it is necessary for the Department to notify the Garda that there could be a problem?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is it a police investigation?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has the DETI referred the matter to the PSNI?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What was the outcome?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Did the PSNI contact the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to request assistance in the matter?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The matter has not been investigated south of the Border?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That should be reviewed. There is a great deal in the report that stinks to the high heavens. The way in which the matter was handled, from a public point of view, was absolutely appalling. Has there been any demand from the EU authorities for a refund in the aftermath of this incompetence? In other words, will there be any penalty for Ireland as a consequence of this shambles?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Griffin has indicated that he is satisfied the other INTERREG projects to which he referred are okay. He has mentioned that Bytel has been reincarnated as a company called Atlas Communications.