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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I do not know whether it was allowed to lapse or run over the allotted period.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: When the accountable person appeared before the committee, we asked him why.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: It is a panel of observers which is selected and runs for a specific period, before the process is repeated. It is a matter of processes and accountability, which is all we want to know about it. Given that we have written to the Department, I am just wondering why we have not received a response.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: On a specific date.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I agree with the Chairman. First, it is a serious letter from a committed person setting out issues about accountability and money. Clearly, we cannot invite everybody to appear before the committee. I agree with the Chair in that regard, but we have to decide how we will put this matter in context. Therefore, we should not say yes now, but we should certainly come back and look at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The letter has a specific remit for us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is separate.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Has the GAA in County Galway responded to the correspondence it received from the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I am keeping an eye on it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: As did the former Taoiseach.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Yes. I beg your pardon. It was a flippant comment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I apologise for interrupting.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I apologise.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh míle buíochas as ucht an t-eolais. I thank Mr. Fraser for all of the information. I note the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on both matters and I welcome that there are no issues arising. In regard to the extract on the Presidency in the review on the 1938 allowance, to which the Chair referred, is that generally available and published?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is fine. I welcome the clarification. We presume it comes under a separate Department. With regard to the President's Establishment and the internal audit, Mr. Fraser has already clarified there was no change and the committee did not meet. Have provisions been put in place should a chair be sick in the future? Has it been pre-empted so it will never happen again that an audit...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Explain to me why it will not happen.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Have procedures been put in place? Things happen, people get sick and there are accidents.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Somebody else would step in.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: How many meetings took place in 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Was there an internal audit in 2018?