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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I have heard Deputy MacSharry. This is a letter from a very senior person in the Department of Education and Skills. He states on paper that he has received unfair treatment. That is serious. He has told us that and we heard Deputy MacSharry's response. I think we should take this matter seriously. I am concerned about the last line in the letter which states that he would be happy to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Just on that point, I was not insinuating that he would not come before us again. I said that we should take it seriously and that we should not meet in the manner that has been suggested. As has been clearly articulated by Deputy Cullinane, that is the Chairman's role.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Does the Chairman have details of its membership? I am looking for numbers and for the gender breakdown.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I do not need their names at this point. I am looking for the numbers.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Okay. That is all right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: They are the magnificent seven men.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: They are.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I express my thanks for all the work and follow up in respect of this. I appreciate it and it arose directly from the previous sessions. I have the information before but I cannot say I have read it in detail. I usually do but I have not on this occasion.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I support the suggestion from Deputy David Cullinane that we come back to it. I want to place this in context. We have had repeated calls for fees - we actually have them for universities but they are called registration charges - and claims that universities are starved of money. To make a judgment, we need all the information. We have never gotten that. However, the one-sided mantra...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to raise a practical issue, albeit I cannot remember the exact details. On the Gort-Tuam scheme, there was a question of a particular body in Europe examining that among other schemes. Documentation was not given over because it was asserted that there was no obligation to provide it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It was left like that. TII said it would not provide the documentation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: As I said on the day, I find that extraordinary. This was put forward. We are talking about transparency and later we will be discussing fiscal transparency. We are learning all of these beautiful words. This was an example where TII could have shone, given over the documents and said, "This is a wonderful project which has come in ahead time". It is strange. I wonder what the Court of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I remember that but, on the European side, they said they did and that the private company came under that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I looked at the documentation. Where is the business case? Am I missing it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: As a business case.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is it easily identifiable?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Following up on our meeting on 29 March, which I acknowledge is a long time ago, the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht was before us. It was to come back to us, in fairness to it, on Foras na Gaeilge and a business case.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay, as long as we are following up on it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The fiscal transparency chapter by the Comptroller and Auditor General dates to July 2017. What specific progress has been made since then?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that. I am no expert and I am guided by experts in this. My job is to ask questions on progress. Since the chapter from July 2017, what has been set up?