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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: There is acceptance of the need to appear before this committee. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am only posing the question in order to ascertain what witnesses that will be there, as currently confirmed. The Clerk is awaiting a response from Professor Brennan; is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is fine. Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland accounts of 2011 had a clean audit opinion. When were the accounts signed off?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland then go to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Are the accounts received from the Department or from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: The route involves the Comptroller and Auditor General conducting an audit, signing off and sending a certificate to the body itself and the body sends the accounts to the Department, before the Department, or the Minister, lays the accounts before the Oireachtas.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: When does the Comptroller and Auditor General receive the draft accounts for audit?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is the Comptroller and Auditor General conducting the audit of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland accounts for 2012 as we speak?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of carrying out an audit, is the timeframe under which audits are to be conducted set down in law? The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland generally has its audit signed off by the end of June. Is that set down in legislation? Statutory accounts must be audited and filed with the companies office within a certain period of time? Is there anything similar in law in this case? The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it a code of conduct as distinct from a legislative basis?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Once again we have received accounts nearly 14 months after the end of the year. In terms of the Children Acts Advisory Board it was almost 18 months afterwards. Can the Comptroller and Auditor General indicate why these reports take so long to reach us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it not ironic that banks which have been bailed out by the ordinary person to the tune of €64 billion are relying on pre-1996 notifications to introduce charges that have not been flagged as part of a larger package of charges? In my view, there is a lack of transparency in the bank charges that are imposed on personal and business customers. Is it not fair to suggest that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: If it is a pre-1996 charge, is a bank required under legislation to make its customers aware of an increase in that charge? Is it required to make its customers aware that it did not have to get the approval of the Central Bank for the increase?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I do not want to delay the committee because Deputy Donnelly wants to contribute. Can the Central Bank give the committee a breakdown of the number of increases that relate to pre-1996 charges and the number that relate to post-1996 charges? I am looking for details of what has happened since 1996, or before then if the Central Bank can go back further than 1996. What percentage of charges...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: The people on whom these charges are being imposed are entitled to nothing less.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Based on pre-1996 legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: They do not even have to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: What about normal bank charges?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bank Charges: Discussion with Central Bank and ISME (17 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Central Bank did not approve many of the bank charges. Prior to the 1995 legislation, there were notified bank charges. The changes came in with the enactment of the Consumer Credit Act 1995 and the coming into operation of section 149 in May 1996. However, prior to that date, the banks put in notified increases. Do the banks require approval from the Central Bank if they want to...