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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Am I correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Some €5 million was owed to the centre in June 2013. A bad debt provision of €3 million has been set against this. Am I correct in that assessment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: They are all legal proceedings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Who has been assigned within the Department to clean up this matter? Ultimately, this is as much about proper records and systems, namely, basic housekeeping. If a corner shop was operating in this fashion, Revenue would close it down because the records are so incomplete but, ultimately, unlike a shopkeeper, this involves €8 million of taxpayers' money per annum. I have no doubt...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would Mr. Harkness mind reading the audit opinion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it a clean audit report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: The qualification the Comptroller and Auditor General's office gave in the 2007 accounts, which was consistently repeated right up until the 2011 accounts, was that it was a qualified report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is a qualified report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: In layman's terms, it is a qualified report whereas, in 2006, the audit was clean.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can we take it that Mr. Kelly and the Department would like to receive the 2012 accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: I would expect nothing less.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Where is the 1993 site located?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Chairman, can I ask a question on that particular issue? On what date did the Department effectively take over the administration of the harbours?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: The 2007 accounts were effectively the responsibility of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. Is that a fair comment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: They were the responsibility of the staff of that Department, who issued a qualified report. The accounts from 2008 onwards were the responsibility of what is now the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Those accounts are qualified up to 2011. The 2006 accounts, under the aegis of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, are in effect unqualified. In...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Were those reports provided to the Comptroller and Auditor General?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would they have formed part of the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would they have made the audit more complete than it would have been prior to 2007?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Prior to that, would the Department have received internal audit reports from the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources?