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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) Catherine Murphy: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: The ratio between the spend and the Department would presumably need to go up to cater 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) Catherine Murphy: Mr. Ó Foghlú tells us there are 98,000 public service employees and 44,000 public service pensioners. Has he done an actuarial assessment for those ratios going into the future? Their longevity is an issue, and there will be other issues. I am just looking at the ratio.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: I will seek clarification about the Grangegorman campus. A very fine piece of work has been done there and will be developed over time. Parts of DIT will be moving onto the campus and then buildings will be freed up. Bolton Street would be the exception, with the others earmarked to go onto the site. What happens to those buildings? Are they owned by the company? Are they owned by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: On the issue of the redress board, the Comptroller and Auditor General produced a report in the past couple of weeks about the redress scheme and the non-payment of some of the commitments that have been made by some religious orders. Some relate to the Department of Education and Skills bringing in some of those funds. Do those show up in Mr. Ó Foghlú's accounts other than the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: Can I say on that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: Is there a follow-on in terms of how it is accounted for?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: I am sure the Chairman will give me back a big chunk of my time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: That is fine. I come to something different entirely, home tutors. I heard what Mr. Ó Foghlú said earlier about how that occurred. I have some further questions on that process. Different categories of people will seek home tuition. There are people who actually opt for home-schooling. There is another category of people who find themselves in a situation where their...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: All right.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: I come to an issue which may be driven by schools funding themselves. I refer to the commercialisation of some of the school buildings, for example, in the context of after-school activities. I have no problem with after-school activities. Some of them, such as dyslexia classes, are educational. Sometimes those involved are charged commercial rates for the use of classrooms in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: There is an educational advantage for the child and the education system through these types of initiatives. This is not particularly prevalent, in terms of after-school use, but it strikes me that there is something perverse about a school charging commercial rates for educational initiatives that actually benefit the school and I think the Department should caution against that. Such...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: Going back to the issue of capital investment of €621 million, obviously demographic pressures will drive some new needs, as well as the process of eliminating prefabs and upgrading schools. Where does choice come into play in terms of patronage, the Irish language and so forth? In north Kildare, for example, there is demand for a gaelcholáiste but the Department keeps insisting...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: On divestment, there is a programme under way to change patronage and reduce the level of religious patronage of schools. In terms of school assets, would some of the schools that would be subject to divestment be owned by the religious institutions? If so, has the purchase of those assets been factored in? What way does that work?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: Is that one of the impediments? The process has been very slow-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: Lastly, on the legal awards, there are particular issues relating to the awards themselves as well as the legal costs. I presume that over the years there has been a reduction in legal challenges against the Department. There was a plethora of such challenges in the late 1990s and early 2000s from parents seeking appropriate education for their children. Is it safe to assume that has...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Murphy: What kinds of actions would they be?
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
Catherine Murphy: One can have Wi-Fi on with aeroplane mode and it would not interfere with the process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
Catherine Murphy: The Wi-Fi can be put back on and messages can be received without interference.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
Catherine Murphy: The reports were initiated and concluded. The Garda investigation commenced after the completion of the reports. Is that correct?