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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I would like to arrange to have it done now in order that we might proceed with our business.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: The report by Deloitte & Touche did not uncover any of this information. You mentioned a report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: How much did that report cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: One flight at a cost of €4,200.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: The report gave no other details about other flights.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: How much was Deloitte & Touche paid for that report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Even given the cost of the reports, they never uncovered the other two flights.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: One would imagine that having spent so much money on a report, it would have uncovered and provided all of those details, but this was not the case. As I see it, that is a failure on the part of Deloitte & Touche with regard to the presentation of the facts compared with what the committee is hearing thus far.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Mr. Boland, you spent €25,000 on a report. I do not care what time pressure they were under. They had a job to do. They should have forensically examined the matter and this expenditure should have come to light. That is my view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: To begin to sign things away like this and under time pressure is the type of attitude that keeps this committee going. If the attitude was one of zero tolerance for this kind of expenditure, then we might not be here today. However, we are here. It is surprising that as we ask simple questions, we are discovering the existence of further flights and further costs. That is the difficulty...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I am just dealing with the opening statement. We can deal with that. I invite Deputy Donohoe to continue with his questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I am sorry, it was €635,000. Surely a question should been asked about it, but it was not raised. I do not expect the HEA to know every single detail and to get down to that level of management. I do, however, expect it to take its oversight role so seriously that WIT understands clearly what is expected of it. It is clear from this ten year period that management completely...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: I ask you to deal with those questions and we will then go to Deputy Donohoe. I raise it at the start of the meeting simply because I was taken aback when you did not deal with it in your opening remarks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: There were two flights.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: Mr. Ó Foghlú, do you wish to add to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: All paid by the institute?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: At a total cost of?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: That was in what year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: The three flights were in what year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012) John McGuinness: We are still awaiting clarification from the institute on the reason for these flights.