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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Cormac Devlin: The RTB spent €16,500 on subscriptions. I note it reduced during the pandemic. What are those subscriptions for?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Cormac Devlin: Mr. Kelly might send a note, if he would not mind, please. I note the stenographer and translation headings. I can understand the reduction in costs of the stenographer, given the pandemic. In terms of translation, however, if the RTB's online services continued, why is there a reduction in translation services? Surely, I would have thought that would have roughly been the same, but it...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Cormac Devlin: The RTB had 753 unresolved cases but it made no provision for them. I understand Mr. Kelly said the costs would vary greatly in those, but there is no provision made at all in the financial accounts in 2020. Is that wise given the discrepancy there could be for the RTB's accounts for next year? This is 5(b), section 14 on page 41 of the financial statements. It says the board had 753...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Cormac Devlin: Would they normally be of that magnitude?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022) Cormac Devlin: I can just foresee as Mr. Kelly sitting here next year - I am sure he is looking forward to it already - accounting for the accounts and realising that perhaps the Comptroller and Auditor General or we might highlight it, given there was no provision at all made for it. I do not think that is right. There should be a given provision for it in light of the number of cases.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: I wish to ask about the CDETB. The Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned a figure of a little over €2 million as regards non-compliance with the procurement rules. What kind of non-compliance issues did he discover?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: I see. For example, the €340,000 in respect of acquiring the delivery of school meals from suppliers should probably have been put out to tender, particularly in Dublin because it is a relatively small, self-contained ETB. It is different if we are talking about a large county, where it would not be reasonable to expect one supplier to supply at two ends of the county. There is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: Which can happen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: That makes sense for the individual centres as well. I thank Mr. McCarthy for that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: Noted.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: I agree with the comments of the previous speakers. We must get more information anyway from it. The article was very serious and concerning, particularly the commentary that was used and quoted in the article of 13 February. In that vein, I welcome the clarity of this letter, particularly about the actual sum initially sought by the HSE, which was €35 million. While the agreed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: I want to raise an area I had mentioned before, namely, the Dublin Dental Hospital. It is a long time since it was before the committee. I forget how long. Maybe the clerk or the Mr. McCarthy can say.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: That is what thought. I thought we had discussed that previously. Given the length of time, I suggest that 24 March be offered to them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: No, I had flagged it when we were going through the list of organisations last September or October. It was given the fact that it had not been here before. I take Deputy Catherine Murphy's point but we might look to see if it is a possibility if there space. The Chairman suggested Horse Racing Ireland. I have no problem with either but if there is a space, we should consider it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: Yes, there is an issue nationally. It is not just with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: I accept what the Comptroller and Auditor General has said. It has a specific remit. I accept what the Chair said about the midlands. You could say that about any area in the country, in fairness, and it is the same for Dublin. I accept the Comptroller and Auditor General's points. If we were to include it with either the Department of Health or the HSE, in tandem as co-witnesses, that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: I do not think that we wrote to them. I think it was more that it was flagged at the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: I can do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)
Cormac Devlin: Yes, that is fine.