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- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: The former chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Who advised them to do so?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I presume the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General meant that the board should seek legal advice, not an individual member.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: That was on behalf of the board, not as individuals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I presume independent legal advice was obtained by the former chairman on behalf of the board, even though it was obtained without its approval.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Okay. Did the board see that legal advice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: How long did it take the board to see it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I will try to be a little clearer. With regard to the legal advice the former chairman obtained, I am going to say it was in a personal capacity, even though in his opinion he was seeking it on behalf of the board but without its approval. When I say "in a personal capacity," I am not suggesting he went off and just obtained legal advice for himself.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: When did he obtain that legal advice in a personal capacity on behalf of the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Roughly when?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: When did the board see that legal advice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: When?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I do not mean to be blunt - sometimes people think I am - but this is just my manner.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I am not interested in meetings that did or did not go ahead. I just want to know when the board saw the legal advice after it had been obtained.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I presume the independent legal advice obtained by the former chairman was in written form and presented to the board at some stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Was it the legal advice the former chairman had obtained?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Was this five or six months later?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Would it have been presented to the board in January 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: What were the recommendations made in the particular legal advice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I hope the Chairman will not jump in, but he may do so. Was there a recommendation that anyone be suspended, pending the outcome of an investigation?