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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Yes, €65 million but it is going to go up because there are still some payments outstanding.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Mr. Fraser made a very good comment in terms of keeping an eye on costs but remembering that people are also very important. It was Mr. Justice Hamilton who a long time ago said that if questions put in the Dáil had been answered, we would not have needed the beef tribunal at the time. Certainly, in my limited experience of two years, if questions were put and answered properly, we...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Does the Department have any input into those quarterly reports?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Is there is a mechanism by which the State Claims Agency informs the Department of cases?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Is there a learning mechanism?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Absolutely. Does Mr. Fraser, as Secretary General, have any knowledge of such learning at the Department of the Taoiseach?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: I am trying determine levels of input. We are heading down the road of an independent investigation, which I fully support. It is a very good idea to do a scoping exercise first because we simply do not have the facts. We do not have the facts because there is a complete lack of accountability in the various organisations. We have no report before us, nine days after the initial report....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: There are serious implications for the Department of the Taoiseach in relation to the information being given in the Dáil. Is that not correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: No, there are serious implications when the Taoiseach is coming into the Dáil with insufficient information. Has Mr. Fraser or his Department any role in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Did Mr. Fraser or his Department have any role in this particular case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Or not coming----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: On the issue of governance-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: I am not going down the road of tribunals at this point. I am looking at processes because that is our role. We sat here examining the Project Eagle case. There would have been no need for the Cooke inquiry if answers had been given. A good and moderate report was done by the Comptroller and Auditor General simply highlighting the issues but the system did not deal with it. We sat here...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Okay. I thank Mr. Fraser for all the informative documents on the strategic communications unit. However, I do not see any document leading to the decision to set it up. Was there a business case setting it out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Was there a document with a business case setting out the need for the strategic communications unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: We do not have that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Every week we are here with various examinations, such as universities and so forth. We are often looking at the absence of business cases. What was the business case for the strategic communications unit? Is Mr. Fraser's answer that it was in a memo for the Government?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: I do mean the actual business case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: This is the Committee of Public Accounts. We are looking at documents and I try to stick to the issues. A strategic communications unit was set up, presumably on the basis of a business case. However, we do not have a copy of that business case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I cannot say if that was a good or a bad decision because I do not have a copy of the business case at the Committee of Public Accounts. Now, Mr. Fraser is telling us it is being wound down and the spin unit has spun itself out.