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Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Was it a situation where there was a dispute between SIPTU and the Department of Health at the time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. I do not want-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. O'Flynn might provide it to the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: That would have come about, and there would have been a Labour Court recommendation. How would SIPTU then have got to the point whereby Mr. Merrigan and Mr. Kelly set up a bank account on foot of a Labour Court recommendation of which SIPTU was party? How would it have set that up in a vacuum?

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: No, but it came on foot of a Labour Court recommendation. I have no doubt that ordinary people looking in will say this was set up out of a structure, namely, the Labour Court, which does a great deal of very good work. At that particular time, what position would Mr. Merrigan have occupied in SIPTU?

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: He would have been senior management.

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. O'Flynn would have thought that any funding from the Department should have gone in directly to a skills programme-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----rather than to this particular vehicle.

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Following on from that, this went on unabated for nearly 12 years. Looking at it, it was like a lucky dip in terms of dipping in for various items such as foreign travel and unaccountable stuff. I find the accounts produced - Mizars were the accountants - for the type of money that was going through this every year extraordinary. For instance, in 2011, nearly €700,000 went through...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Two people appeared to have enormous latitude to write cheques across a range of areas. Our role here is in terms of the taxpayer. Does it not defy logic that it ran on unchecked for so long?

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did the union pay for the Grant Thornton report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Perhaps the legal counsel secretariat could also attend that meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is the Chairman concerned about the day or the amount of time?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: To take up the point Deputy John Deasy made that Mr. Elderfield stated the sanctions and the legislation dealing with white collar crime were not fit for purpose, when I was in the Chair on the day, I gave an undertaking that it would form part of the module on banking. We are doing a review on banking and we gave a commitment on the day. It is on record that the Committee of Public...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: We had legal advice and correspondence in this area. Legally, we need to take a more elaborate look into this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is not purely-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: This matter is coming up a lot in terms of the workings of the PAC. We need strong counsel opinion on requesting witnesses to attend. If witnesses are running into court and matters become subject to legal proceedings, we must get full clarity on the working of the Committee of Public Accounts. Are there circumstances in which witnesses appearing before the Committee Of Public Accounts...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I assume that what is in paragraph 4.9 is, in audit terms, an emphasis of matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: There is one thing that would be helpful, if there is any form of addendum - I will not say qualification - or emphasis of matter. An emphasis of matter is not done for the good of one's health. It would be helpful if we could be provided with the audit report itself. In a clean audit, opinion is not required because of the principle of a true and fair view, but in the case of a variation,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Could Mr. McCarthy repeat the information about the basis of the issue?