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- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: How much will it take for the boat to be brought up to an appropriate standard which the original owner might like to see and that might be proper in terms of its use and its further use? Has this been costed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Sorry, could you repeat that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Will Mr. Owens give us a report on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: I intend to finish the meeting before 5.30 p.m. but I must take a break for ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Today we received correspondence which members did not get a chance to examine, but I wish to raise it because it is in today's correspondence pack. It came from an individual who has had a long-standing battle with County Cork VEC. He cites various issues in respect of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. We have dealt with some of these, but I glanced down through it to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: I do not expect you to go into it now. There are other issues in the report relating to ongoing correspondence being sent to the now ETB and not being responded to by an individual. Is there outstanding correspondence to the ETB that has to be replied to querying various issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: But not many of them write to Mr. Owens.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: I will bring that to the attention of Mr. Owens. I have the details here. I do not know whether he has seen correspondence from Mr. Hugh Rance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: We got it today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Okay, so Mr. Owens has not spoken to him.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: To be fair about this, we will pass on the information and ask for a comprehensive response to all the issues raised because a significant number of issues have been raised and they are relevant to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. I dealt with the human cost earlier, which he deals with here, and then further investigation and recommendations are suggested. I would like to seek...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Deputy Perry, it is probably something we can look at in the context of the recommendation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: This is a non-money issue but it was reported back on 29 October 2012 that there was a case taken under the Sex Offenders Act 2001. I presume that, arising from that, all the appropriate safeguards have been put in place relative to the legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: I also presume that issue has been dealt with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: I mentioned earlier that somebody had written to the committee. I will clarify that. Apparently, Mr. Frank Fox, of the Department of Education and Skills, has the spreadsheet in respect of the queries that have been raised. It has been pointed out that some of these are legal matters but they are not raised or considered to be of issue legally in terms of the person who raised them. Will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: It has been mentioned. We say these things in a committee and it is often a worthwhile vehicle for the witnesses to put out their information and correct an issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: The Evening Echoreported that €438,960 was paid for member expenses on education and training boards. I presume that is a national figure. Somebody might inquire into that and let us have details. It is reported in the local media.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Is the other figure a national figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: The Committee of Public Accounts would certainly be interested in a breakdown of the figure currently being reported of €438,960. Were new terms of reference issued to the audit unit?