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- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Is there not a conflict or potential conflict there in the current environment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Following on from some of the earlier questions, has there been a conflation of the board and the executive?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: No. Is there a very clear separation between the board and the executive?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: In terms of putting items on the agenda and being made fully aware of, for example, the issues raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General, how transparent was that for the rest of the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: With regard to governance, was this a regular item for consideration on the board's agenda?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Was Mr. Ruttle aware of the previous history in relation to report done by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Kildare VEC?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Was Mr. Ruttle not made aware of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Mr. McCarthy gave us dates for when the report was done and then it would have found its way to the board after that. Could he give us the date on which there would have been a debate here, for example?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: The education and training boards were set up in 2013.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Would that not have been put on a risk register? My question is for Mr. Ashe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Were the items concerning procurement not very specifically put on a risk register? The letter we have from the Department states that the Department would continue to insist on adherence to proper procurement practices in VECs and to remind VECs of their obligations in that regard.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Was there particular attention given that there had been an issue in Kildare? Was there particular attention to not letting this happen again? Did that arise? Was there a discussion of this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Was there any dialogue between the Department and the KWETB? This particular report had been produced so one would have expected that the Department would have had a particular concern to make sure it did not happen again. Parallel with the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General, a targeted internal audit was conducted on key areas of our operations. Those audits went through 2013,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: What lessons were learned from this process conducted in 2010 that was bought into the KWETB? Was there a learning process on procurement, for example?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: We understand the property issue. I remind Mr. Ashe that €1.9 million was spent on ICT and there were five transactions over €50,000. One purchase did not evidence tendering. There were 17 transactions of between €5,000 and €50,000. Five purchases did not have evidence of quotes sought. Of the €1.9 million, expenditure payments of more than...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: The point I am trying to get to is that they were sufficient to have a special report done by the Comptroller and Auditor General. I suspect if someone has been invited in here once, one does not want to come back again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I would have thought these issues would be indelibly marked on Mr. Ashe's brain not to allow this to happen again-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: -----and that antennae would go up and the ETB would pay very strict attention to procurement-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: -----as a consequence. I am trying to find out what governance aspects were specifically included to ensure this was not going to be something that would be repeated by the new entity.