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Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Where did Ms Higgins go with her difficulties when she had so few staff?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Where did Ms Higgins go? This is a major problem. The organisation is overwhelmed. What happened? Did Ms Higgins report to the board and tell it?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: When did Mazars come in?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The recruitment for Mazars-----

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: No. I asked when Mazars came in.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Callaghan was in the middle of telling me about Mazars and I interrupted him to ask him when Mazars came in.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Who were they?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is acknowledged in the report.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Caranua has acknowledged it.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: When Mr. O'Callaghan says agency staff, is that to get employees in to answer the phones?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: When did Mazars come in?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Caranua has a full complement of staff now.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Callaghan can see the difficulty from my point of view.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Can somebody from the Department of Education and Skills explain how this was allowed to happen? Nine months after the organisation was set up it was completely overwhelmed as soon as it opened for applications.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: My question was that there were nine months so how did the Department or any other Department that was relevant allow this to happen? There were staff in place, albeit not enough, and it goes on until January. I will not waste my time repeating it. How was this allowed to happen?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: When did the board come into place?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Callaghan was not there from March 2013. Who was chairman before him?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: She was there before Mr. O'Callaghan as chair.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Callaghan came in in January 2014.