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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Go raibh míle buíochas as ucht an t-eolais. I thank Mr. Fraser for all of the information. I note the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on both matters and I welcome that there are no issues arising. In regard to the extract on the Presidency in the review on the 1938 allowance, to which the Chair referred, is that generally available and published?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: That is fine. I welcome the clarification. We presume it comes under a separate Department. With regard to the President's Establishment and the internal audit, Mr. Fraser has already clarified there was no change and the committee did not meet. Have provisions been put in place should a chair be sick in the future? Has it been pre-empted so it will never happen again that an audit...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Explain to me why it will not happen.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Have procedures been put in place? Things happen, people get sick and there are accidents.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Somebody else would step in.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: How many meetings took place in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Was there an internal audit in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: It is a rolling programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Do not mind the Comptroller and Auditor General. We will leave the Comptroller and Auditor General alone and just answer the questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: We all misuse the Comptroller and Auditor General on occasion to justify different things. These are specific questions about the procedures in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: In 2018 the issue it looked at was the centenarian bounty. What will it look at this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Procurement has already been mentioned so I will not repeat that. In regard to the commemorative medals, out of interest, are they made in Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: It would be interesting to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: I would be amazed too.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: The rest of my questions have already been answered. We will move on to the Department of the Taoiseach. I am not sure if Mr. Fraser answered on the contingent liability on page 19. Did my colleague address that? Could we deal with it? It is stated that an indemnity provided by the Department may generate costs. Can Mr. Fraser clarify the position in that regard? What is the nature of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. Fraser in a position to give any idea of the level of the costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: That is fine, I just wanted to clarify it. In respect of tribunals, these are the tribunals or commissions that come within the Department of the Taoiseach. Then there are others like the Grace inquiry and so on.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Is anybody in a position to tell us the cost of the tribunals to date, even that for the past 15 years? Where would we source that knowledge?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Yes. It would be nice to know that in respect of tribunals and commissions of inquiry. At the moment, how many are outstanding? We are going back to Lowry here and the other matter. I am sorry, I do not mean to mention names.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: We are not getting an overview. We are getting what is due for 2017 or what was paid out during that year. Is that right?