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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: This is money that comes in in a variety of different ways and different commitments exist on which that money must be spent. That is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I just want to be clear on that. Do similar arrangements exist in DCU?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Fleming made a useful suggestion that it would be helpful to understand where those figures stand in terms of our national accounts overall and how they are registered. I just wanted to clarify the discussion which ensued earlier. The Comptroller and Auditor General's report must be seen in the context of the report done in September 2010, which was special report No. 73, and I want...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Do we know what was going on at those locations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: That leads on to my next question: what is happening now as a result of the revelations in front of us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Has there been any change in the nature of the governing body or its composition since these revelations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: What about within the senior management team?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: How do you respond to the point Deputy McGuinness made that a number of other entities and individuals were aware of what was going on? Across a ten year period, no one ever said "Stop".
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Sorry; I want to withdraw that statement, because Mr. McFeely did, and I should have acknowledged that in what I said. Why were there not more people like Mr. McFeely? I am glad I was pulled up on that because I want to apologise to Mr. McFeely for the statement I made because he clearly did. My question is why was he on his own.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: When will we know? How will we know?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I will leave it at that. You have come into a new role and are having to deal with these issues. We will look to him to see a resolution of this. I also acknowledge Mr. McFeely's role in this but I reiterate the point made by colleagues. I am concerned about the performance of the individual who instigated the behaviour that is of concern and equally why, with the exception of Mr. McFeely...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Professor MacCraith gave me a sense of what is happening within DCU on that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I would like to go on to another observation made in the report, on page 43, on the measuring of staff time as part of a revised costing model. The point the report made was that a new system was brought in to better allocate funding from the Exchequer to universities. It wanted to come up with a way to understand the use of staff time and the resulting outputs. One of the observations in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: One of the points Dr. Brady made earlier concerned the challenge of attracting and retaining staff of international calibre owing to current pay levels. In preparing for this meeting I looked at a report by the HEA that was part of its correspondence to the committee in November 2010. It was in response to our request for help in understanding the comparative levels of pay between...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Let me restate the point. Is Dr. Brady saying it is a difficulty for the people below that tier?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Above that tier.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Dr. Brady is contending that the difficulty does not arise with average wage levels but with the ability to be flexible at individual level.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I note Dr. Prendergast was nodding when Dr. Brady was making that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Deputy John Deasy has taken the words out of my mouth.