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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Sometimes one hears that money is payable to the Garda benevolent trust fund or social club. One sees instances of this reported on in local newspapers. The correspondent is clear that the payments do not go through the accounts and are not recorded or audited.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General might send us a note on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will follow up on this. We are told that there are two categories-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Minister for Justice and Equality in respect of categories B and C. The Department says that it is bringing forward new legislation — the criminal justice (community sanctions) Bill — which must include some revision to the operation of the court poor box. We will ask the Minister to take this into consideration and give us his views on the matter. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is fine. No. 1131B is correspondence from Mr. Kevin McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Rural and Community Development, providing information requested at the meeting on 8 February 2018 when we discussed the Dormant Account Fund. We will note and publish that and take it into consideration when drafting our report on the topic. No. 1134B, from Mr. Deaglán Ó...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is fine. With regard to No. 1097C, there are many spreadsheets and much information. Members may use that information or come back to it at a subsequent meeting. There are many spreadsheets for people to examine in detail. The next correspondence is No. 1098 from Mr. Neil McDermott of the Higher Education Authority with details of expenditure regarding mergers of technological...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will need to immediately write separately to Cork IT and IT Tralee-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----for their current position regarding the proposed-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----Munster Technological University merger, the stage it is at and the most recent decision of the boards of the respective ITs on it. We will await their replies but if it if the proposed merger is not proceeding, there is a big question to answer about that expenditure of more than €571,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It includes management consultancy services.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: They are professional fees.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I do not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane indicated he wants to speak.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: There were further advances.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will certainly write to the Cork IT and IT Tralee enclosing this schedule and ask why their figures are so high relative to the others. We want to know which college paid the amount involved, was it paid on a 50:50 basis or by one college? As Deputy Catherine Murphy said, it has had an impact on student services. If more than €571,000 has been spent by two colleges on this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write directly to UCC about the agreement and the secretariat has a note of the query. UCC states it is part of a postgraduate degree and a new partnership that will see University College Cork invest in-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The obvious first question is whether it can demonstrate to the committee the income did not come from taxpayers' money.