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Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: SOLAS is a significant funder of the ETB. We discussed that this morning. In the latest year for which information is available, SOLAS gave €26 million. It is a significant funder of the ETB so why did the Comptroller and Auditor General not go to SOLAS as a funder if he went to the Department as a funder? I am seeking to understand how it was initiated. Mr. Ruttle said he wrote...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...relates to ETBs in order to let the committee know what the ETB sector is costing? It is a simple question. The witnesses can come back to us in writing on that. I have two quick questions. SOLAS gave us a good indication of its interaction with the ETBs in respect of the budget and the mid-year review. The organisations meet afterwards, check the figures and assert them. I know...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Some €538 million goes from SOLAS to the ETBs and they follow that money as I have just described. My question is on the €816 million which the Department pays directly to the ETBs. Does the Department carry out a similar exercise during the year for its €816 million as SOLAS does for its €538 million? That is my question. Is the same procedure in place? If I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: ...was conducted by the council. This is a relatively new organisation but we will ask it for a report on that issue. No. 4.17, the Health Research Board has received a clear audit opinion. No. 4.18, SOLAS received a clear audit opinion. However, note 7 of the SOLAS financial statements discloses costs totalling €1.5 million arising from a High Court decision in November 2015...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: My final question relates to the NLN and to SOLAS. Approximately how much money goes to the NLN from SOLAS?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: SOLAS is carrying out a similar exercise to that being carried out by the HSE. As we have established, they are not public servants. What kind of check is SOLAS doing, given that two thirds of all payments in that organisation are funded by the State?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I reviewed the documentation last night and the question I had was what was the overall figure. I can work out individual accounts from SOLAS and I know the contribution from SOLAS to each of the ETBs.

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I meant to say that but I am confused at this hour of the night. On behalf of the committee I thank our witnesses from the Departments of Education and Skills and Public Expenditure and Reform, SOLAS and the four education and training boards. Is it agreed to dispose of the SOLAS accounts? Agreed. I thank the witnesses for their attendance and the Comptroller and Auditor General and his...

Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...this programme is historically low, which might mean Kilkenny and Carlow ETB is not receiving a fair portion of available funding. I see that City of Dublin ETB received €1.45 million from SOLAS for the back to education initiative, which seems remarkably low given that Cork, for example, gets a much higher sum. Why is the allocation for Dublin city, with such a large...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...of the City of Dublin Education and Training Board, CDETB, given its size and scale. The secretariat has proposed having representatives of the Department of Education and Skills and SOLAS, the funders of the ETBs, attend the first session together. I would like everyone to be present for the full meeting. In other words, I want the chairmen and chief executives of the two education and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...a few minutes reading it privately before we discuss it in public. In any case, it is held over to be on the list next week. No. 934B, dated 17 November 2017, is from Mr. Paul O'Toole, CEO of SOLAS, and provides follow-up information requested by the committee at the meeting of 16 November. It includes SOLAS salary costs, staff numbers and a summary of consultancy costs in 2016. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...xe1;il and lunch and we will resume again at 2.30 p.m. with the City of Dublin ETB, and Kilkenny and Carlow ETB. The Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills and representatives of SOLAS will continue to be here. It goes without saying that representatives of the Department of Education and Skills and of SOLAS will get some questions during the afternoon session. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...difficulty is the fact that in this sector the accounts of many bodies are not published until two or three years after they are due. Some ETBs continue to go back every year to the Department or SOLAS for an allocation of funding, and the Department and SOLAS continue to fund them without having seen the audited financial statements of the prior years. That is a major concern for this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce legislation to ensure SOLAS develops an adult literacy and numeracy strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28138/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I feel it is very strange that we invite an organisation here without having its annual report before us. Aside from the bit the HSE and SOLAS are doing, is such information in the public domain?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: How does that capitation fee compare with the capitation fees that SOLAS pays to other organisations? Is there a set fee for all organisations, or does it vary from organisation to organisation?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Would SOLAS be able to send the committee a list of all the organisations that receive more than €1 million per annum?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Maybe SOLAS can give us the full list.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: If members want to look at the SOLAS accounts, they are free to do so.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: What is the figure for what was transferred to SOLAS?