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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it correct that with the €5.35 allocation to FÁS, €1.45 million to the Department of Social Protection and €0.39 million for technical support, more than €7 million of the total funding allocated in effect went to FÁS? It seems that more than 55% of the funding that was allocated went to FÁS. How much of the funding that was allocated went to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: No, the €1.65 million obviously went to FÁS as well. I remember from the time that it went to FÁS. I would say the Department of Social Protection is now-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: It was the back to education allowance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. I would like to know the reason for the disparity in refunds between the various programmes. It is clear that almost 80% of the fund was spent in the Waterford example. That is to be welcomed. In the case of SR Technics, approximately 40% of the fund was spent and 60%, which is very high, was refunded. Has the Department come to a conclusion - apart from the overall issues relating...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will leave it at that. Mr. Ó Foghlú and his colleagues might give us a breakdown of the figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Mr. Flannery and I welcome others to Ireland. I wish to address a number of issues beyond those already mentioned. From the witnesses' experience with the Ireland Funds, the philanthropy forum and the One Foundation, how long would it take to get a project like this up and running on a practical level? What would be involved? The greatest challenge facing Ireland is employment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Think positively.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: What type of model funds them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Please boil it down to practicalities rather than an abstract description.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes. What has been learned from the fund's experience in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Please explain the strategic aspect of the model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Have the witnesses had the opportunity to do an audit of the type of projects that are vulnerable in terms of their sustainability for going forward to the fiscal cliff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Deputy Donnelly could never be accused of being radical.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy is in politics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is that even if the Deputy is not a part of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: So Deputy Boyd Barrett is not against profit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: From listening to what has been said, we have a philanthropy model in Ireland but it is not sustainable. Effectively, 85% of funding came from two sources – Chuck Feeney in Atlantic Philanthropies and the One Foundation. We must come up with a model that is sustainable. What is at issue is the structure of the model and that one spreads it over a large number of philanthropists...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Mr. O'Connor. I wish to deal with some practical matters in my questions. How will the intermediaries and the personal insolvency practitioners be regulated? In my view, a lack of proper regulation was a significant cause of the mortgage crisis. I ask Mr. O'Connor to describe the screening process and the regulatory procedure.