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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Will Ms Quinn write to us with the details?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Ms Quinn can provide the information if she does not have it to hand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: I do not expect Ms Quinn to have absolutely everything to hand, but she might let us know who from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform approved them. I presume there was approval by the Department. Ms Quinn has been in her current role since the beginning. The job was not publicly advertised. Was it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Why was that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: There was a job.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Who employs Ms Quinn?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Let me get this straight for the members of the public who are watching. Until 2017 or 2018, the majority of the funding was sourced from taxpayers or other sources, including The Ireland Funds, the Atlantic gang and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Ms Quinn's position was not filled by open competition by simply by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: There was no competition for the position. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: That is strange. How were the directors on the board of Benefacts picked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: The additional directors are chosen by-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: A total of three directors have resigned in recent years. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Did they resign or did they simply come to the end of their lives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Obviously, under the law they are required to give written statements explaining why they resigned. Why did they resign?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: I am only asking the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: I am sure there is a record of why they resigned because by law they had to explain it. Is it true that the chairperson of the board is also the chairperson of the audit committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Who is the chairperson of the audit committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Has the chairperson of the board ever been the chairperson of the audit committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: That is because it would not be normal, as the Benefacts representatives can appreciate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: In that sense it would not have been appropriate. It is not the norm in any way, shape or form. Benefacts operates under a voluntary code of governance. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Given what the Minister said earlier, Benefacts will operate under a different code of governance because the majority of the company's funding will probably come from the taxpayer. It will have to fall into the norm in that regard. The old way of funding was 50:50. In my scenario we are looking back at different accounts. How does Ms Quinn perceive the funding streams? What were they in...