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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: If I said it was €68 million, with an additional €19.8 million, would I be accurate?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Before Mr. Ó Foghlú speaks at all about it, I was hoping he would have the figures and it is to be hoped he can get them. However, my understanding is €19.8 million had to be reimbursed to the European Commission. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: My understanding is €19.8 million was returned because of a failure on our part to meet requirements during that period. There was a return in 2016; therefore, the money could not be spent. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Does Mr. Ó Foghlú know if money had to be returned to the European Commission? Is he not be familiar with it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Leaving aside the numbers, will Mr. Ó Foghlú confirm that money had to be reimbursed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I am sorry, but that is not accurate.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I know that Mr. Ó Foghlú is trying to get the information, but I can put questions as he is trying to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: It is not that money is lost but that it could not be spent in the time period in which it should have been spent. As Mr. Ó Foghlú stated, because of problems and delays in getting systems up and running, we had to reimburse the European Commission €19.8 million. This relates to financing for youth employment initiatives. The level of youth unemployment is still relatively...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: It would have been known that having the appropriate IT systems in place was one of the requirements to be met in drawing down the funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Was the Department aware that it was a requirement when it made the funding application? If it was, why were the processes and systems required not up and running?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: On the completion of this meeting today, will Mr. Ó Foghlú furnish the committee with a report or paper on what happened in terms of system failures or systems not being in place, indicating whether the matter is being rectified?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Mr. Ó Foghlú might furnish us with a paper on it. On the national training fund, is there a surplus?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: How much is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: What is the reason for it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: There are many challenges in higher education institutes. As representatives of all of them will be here in the next few weeks, I am sure they will all tell us that they have problems with funding and that they need more money. Given this, how can we accumulate a surplus? My understanding is the surplus is €232 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Why would it be allowed to build to that amount when there are funding pressures in institutions?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I will move to funding for third and fourth-level institutions and will start with institutes of technology, specifically the ones with which I am most familiar, namely, Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT, and Institute of Technology Carlow. In 2008, the core grant for WIT was €40,134,565. In 2016, the core grant was €26,000,460, which is a very substantial cut in core...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I can correct Mr. Ó Foghlú on that. The student fees in 2008 for WIT amounted to €10.203 million. The fees in 2016 amounted to €6 million. The total funding in 2016 for WIT was €32 million. In 2008, it was €50 million. What Mr. Ó Foghlú just said certainly did not happen in Waterford or Carlow institutes of technology.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Several parliamentary questions have been tabled in respect of this matter. Does Mr. Ó Foghlú know the percentage of pay as opposed to core funding in institutes generally? I can give him the figure for Waterford. It is 87%. Does it not trouble him, as Secretary General, that such a high level of the core funding goes towards pay, even though the institutions in question are...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Third-level institutes also run deficits. A number of institutes of technology, of which Waterford IT is one, are doing so.