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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I am a little surprised that that information is not available to the Secretary General, given that this might have been an expected question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Of course.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: My question is this: did the Department procure services from Polymetrika in the 2019 period?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. Ó Foghlú tell us the basis on which those services were procured and the skills Polymetrika brought which clearly were not within the Department's current resources?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: It was related to the international PISA rankings rather than the accelerated implementation of any new online marking system.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. Ó Foghlú talk to us about the work carried out in 2019 on the accelerated marking system and whether it laid the foundation to use a very select number of areas? Did it lay the foundation for online marking in subsequent years, this year and so on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I imagine that when Mr. Ó Foghlú uses the word "speedy", it was probably nothing compared with what he would have envisaged speedy being in 2020.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Was any of the work that was comparable in that period applicable in subsequent years? Mr. Ó Foghlú is saying they did not relate-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Standardisation occurs in every year. Were any other companies contracted to provide advice or assistance on the standardisation of examinations as it related to 2019?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: As Mr. Ó Foghlú has referred to those systems, was the coding of those systems or the IT systems which assisted in the standardisation process carried out within the existing IT systems within the Department or did it procure additional services for that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Do we know the companies that are involved in that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes. I appreciate Mr. Ó Foghlú's assistance on that. I think it will prove beneficial as we move on with the issue. I wish to return, in the very brief time I have available, to the issue of the posting of payslips, which the previous speaker raised. I think many people will be shaking their heads at the thought of thousands and thousands of payslips each fortnight going out...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Mr. Ó Foghlú have an expectation or a timeline on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: The Secretary General might come back to the committee with a timeline on that if possible.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Programme (22 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 9. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to criminalise adults who groom children to commit crimes, as outlined in the programme for Government. [31241/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Programme (22 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: There is undoubtedly sufficient social distance between the Ministers and me. Sitting back here gives a whole new meaning to the term "backbencher". I ask for an outline of the Government's plans to criminalise adults who groom children to commit crimes, as outlined in the programme for Government.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Programme (22 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister of State. He spoke of the damage being done to children. I acknowledge the work done by the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, in this area before her appointment. She visited Ballymun and Finglas in my constituency several years ago to talk to us about "Fagin's law", her Bill on the recruitment of children to engage in criminal activity. While she had been inspired...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Programme (22 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I look forward to working with that review. I once chaired a youth justice project, not in my local area but in Kilmore. Many of the services put in place by the State, whether youth justice or issues such as those I was talking to the Minister about last night, including the national childcare scheme, after-school programmes and similar matters, are working to ensure that children do not...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the Bill that is before the House. I note the comments of Deputies Ó Broin and Cian O'Callaghan in particular because many of the arguments they made about the housing crisis echo comments the Minister made when he was in opposition. Those comments reflect the grave error we in this country made of not building more public housing on public land. In the 120 days since the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (22 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if vertical DEIS 1 schools will benefit from a reduction in the pupil teacher ratio announced in Budget 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32252/20]