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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: What about choosing somebody who has retired? Does he or she have a free hand in that as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: One can see the natural bias, of course, and it is understandable where there is a person out sick and the principal knows that the person who retired was good with staff and pupils. Does the Department track how many people are coming back for longer periods of time?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: The improvement is definitely significant, I agree.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: Moving on, the second issue I want to raise relates to an article I read last week in the Irish Examiner about County Cork VEC. The issue has been raised at meetings of this committee before. The article states that "County Cork VEC secured more than €430,000 in unauthorised borrowings from Mallow Credit Union and signed up to a long lease with no permission ... it gave conflicting...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: Yes, in terms of what the Department is doing. The issue has been raised at this committee before in the context of the VEC and irregularities there but this is new information, as far as I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: When did that meeting take place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: With whom was that meeting held?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: Is there a senior officer or assistant secretary in the Department responsible for the VECs in general, who would also be responsible for dealing with individual VECs when these cases arise?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: The Department is also awaiting clarification on payments for 1,000 tutor hours that were not timetabled, estimated at €60,000, payments to teachers for non-teaching work, allowances paid to ineligible learners, additional travel allowances paid and the hiring of a person to drive a bus who did not have an appropriate background check. Has any clarification been received from the VEC...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: That is the only outstanding issue, is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: In terms of those incidents in Macroom and what is happening now with County Cork VEC, what level of concern would Mr. Ó Foghlú have regarding the VEC?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: Are we walking about a systems failure here?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: Does Mr. Ó Foghlú believe the VEC intentionally misled the Department on the lease arrangement for the Youthreach centre?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: It is not the first time that the Department got wrong information. Blaming a system can sometimes be the easy option but sometimes there can be a culture of failure within an organisation. We have seen that before - quite a lot - in society. It is bit more difficult to detect but it is a lot more poisonous. One wonders if there comes a point when the Department has to decide to step in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: How long is the Department prepared to wait? The issues that arose were brought to the attention of this committee and the Department over 12 months ago, is that not correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: Something needs to happen.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: Is there anything else of which Mr.Ó Foghlú is aware, in terms of reports or allegations, that may be of concern relating to the VEC or operations under its aegis?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: Can Mr. Ó Foghlú comment on them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: Sorry, I missed the latter point. Plans for what?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Eoghan Murphy: Has the Department given a deadline to the VEC to come back to it regarding the loan for €430,000?