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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That was the issue we were following.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It followed on from when Irish Aid was before the committee. Its representatives were to clarify.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That might be appropriate for the Joint Committee for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. The committees are all looking for work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The Comptroller and Auditor General has highlighted this, which is his job, and then we draw attention to it, but we cannot keep going into the minutiae of these accounts. We can highlight these things and call representatives in to meet us but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. McCarthy referred to the throughput. Has the money been allocated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I return to the Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB. Notwithstanding procurement, the finance committee met only twice and identified significant organisational challenges, potential control weaknesses, an outdated financial management system and so on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Can I just deal with that before we go on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for the clarity he has provided. It did not offer an opinion but set out the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: -----obligations under the legislation that is applicable and under the circular that dates back to 2010. Our time is limited. At the previous meeting, I asked who was protecting the public purse and various colleagues, notably Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, took up the issue, which was very helpful. The chairperson of the board did not seem to know who on the board was protecting the public...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I do not think we should delay witnesses regardless of who they are.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I want to concur with my colleagues. The report should have been given to us. I am looking at it, and the Chairman has read out that the written consent of Mazars is required. We have the Mazars report in front of us and we are supposed to be talking about it today or another day but nobody else can have it. The word "bizarre" comes to mind-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: -----in respect of this matter. Are we going to pick pieces out of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is my view that we should hold off and not pick pieces out of it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: -----but I now have a report before me that I have read, as have my colleagues, under pressure. At the very least, we should not be here wondering about written consent. That should have been done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That should have been sorted out when this report came to us. We should have been told that we have the consent from Mazars and we do not need to proceed in a bizarre manner with a report before us that we cannot talk about.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The Chairman is absolutely right to be cautious. I have underlined the sentence that it written consent must first be obtained. The Chairman has to be cautious but this should have been sorted out by the board that was sending us the report. It should have stated the board had got the consent of the people it commissioned and paid, using taxpayers' money, that we could now use it and that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: On some of the minutes, it is obviously a minefield but it has been pointed out to the secretariat that some pages are missing in the minutes that have been supplied.