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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am still trying to figure out how problems arise, particularly if all this is in place. Ultimately, the board should be able to say that the audit committee met four times in the year, as did the finance committee and whatever other committees. It should be able to outline the issues to be dealt with and the risks. That should be happening. The members of boards need training in that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Chair.
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The questions on the deficit have been asked. Does the matter also apply to Dublin?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: First, I congratulate both organisations for their clear audits and for the fact that no issues have been raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General. I thank the witnesses for coming forward. It is not easy. I thank them for their co-operation. I thank Ms Deane for pointing out how the tentacles of the ETB go into every single household in her area, which brings home the importance of...
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Do the audit, finance and relevant committees meet every single year for the required period? Ms Carol Hanney:Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Are the minutes appropriate or have any issues arisen?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I ask the City of Dublin ETB the same questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Have any risks been identified?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Did the City of Dublin ETB identify specific risks that it took action about?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Regularly.
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is Ms O'Riordan the finance director?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I think Ms O'Riordan referred earlier on to finance committees meeting but the committee did not meet the required number of times or did it?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is that in a rush before the end of the year because we are now in November?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is what I am wondering. I am just using the City of Dublin ETB as an example because we will go through this with the others in terms of committees meeting. Somehow sometimes it falls between stools. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Right.
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is Ms O'Riordan confident that there will be two finance meetings before the end of the year?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I shall turn next to the Department. I could not find the following when I was looking for it today. I knew there was a reference to a pilot programme somewhere. It was a pilot programme involving the sectoral governance compliance unit. Who in the Department of Education and Skills is aware of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I am reading from an extract from the statement on internal financial controls under the heading of education sector corporate governance. The Accounting Officer stated that "the Department's sectoral governance compliance unit made significant progress".
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I missed the meaning of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is that the compliance unit?