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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: We will reflect the Deputy's views in correspondence, coupled with a transcript of this meeting and send it to the appropriate agencies and Department. We will highlight the urgency of the issue and ask for a reply.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: We will check that and then correspond with them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: This is all the same issue?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: When the information is available, the Deputy can take it up directly with the Accounting Officer when he appears.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: Our meeting on Wednesday, 26 June at 3 p.m. is agreed, along with the request for a morning meeting, and we are meeting again on Thursday.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: Correspondence was circulated from the committee of Chairmen of the Houses of the Oireachtas and I want to make it available to members to look at in the context of how the PAC does its work. It contains a recommendation on how the committees of the Houses should work and hear witnesses. I would like to hear the views of all members on it, particularly given the work we have been doing. It...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: Members should then come back to the clerk with their views.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: We could invite it in September.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: We are trying to tie in with its agenda. The key players are working abroad, as they should be, and we must find an appropriate date for everyone. If it is the wish of the committee we can write back and explain we want an earlier date. We are not avoiding the issue, it has to take a number of people into account.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: The committee decided that as we invite in these agencies, we ensure we have their up-to-date accounts. We will have the IDA accounts as well at our meeting in September so we will be able to have a wide ranging discussion based on those accounts and the issue Deputy Ross raised if we leave it until September.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: We are trying to accommodate Deputy Fleming and the others who made that point. My job is to make the committee happy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: If the Deputy is happy with September, I am happy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: Before we begin, I remind members, witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery to turn off all mobile telephones as they interfere with the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give this committee. If a witness is directed by the committee...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to introduce Special Report No. 80: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund.

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I acknowledge the presence of Mr. Heffernan from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I ask Mr. O'Flynn to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Joe O'Flynn. May we publish your statement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: I have a question for Mr. O'Flynn before calling the next speaker. He indicated that Mr. Merrigan asked for the Grant Thornton report to be completed. In other words, it was done on Mr. Merrigan's instruction and he held the report. Mr. O'Flynn further indicated that the trustees were anxious to complete their own report, which they later published. Did they have sight of Mr. Merrigan's...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: To clarify, in order to gain sight of the report, my understanding is that SIPTU paid its solicitor, who in turn paid Grant Thornton. In other words, the ultimate beneficiary of this transaction was Grant Thornton. Moreover, notwithstanding SIPTU's payment, the report remains in the ownership of Mr. Merrigan. How much did SIPTU pay either to its solicitor or directly to Grant Thornton in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: It cost €76,000 to see it? I am merely seeking clarification here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

John McGuinness: I am not questioning what Mr. O'Flynn said. I simply want to understand this matter, particularly in light of what has been said in respect of the questions that were asked. A former employee of the union - namely, the fund administrator - paid for a report to be carried out by Grant Thornton out of his own funds. He knew the union-----