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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Who signed off on the internal audit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: I do not necessarily want the name. I am curious because the accounts went to an internal audit committee and it did not see it fit to raise the issues that concerned Mr. McFeely or did not see them. The committee did not see the lack of due process or procedure around the purchase of all of these listed goods and services. As members of such a committee, the people involved over that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Where did the accounts go from there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: What did the governing body do with them? Did they just accept the accounts as signed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Who was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: The audit committee and governing body signed off and accepted the accounts over those years and not a single question was asked of the president with regard to those accounts. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: The entire system would seem to be guilty of negligence, at least, in terms of how affairs were conducted and the accounts were examined.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Mr. McFeely stated they were made aware of the issues. He may have made them aware in an informal way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Did no one have the bottle to raise the question?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: What is a "confidential" basis? Is it hush-hush? He was spending a fortune.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Perhaps Dr. Neavyn will tell the committee what company was responsible for auditing the accounts between 2001 and 2011.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: In terms of the audit, what happens within the institute? Who presents the accounts to whom?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: In terms of the institute's internal audit, were none of Mr. McFeely's concerns highlighted in the context of good governance and how the institute is operated? The institute spent a significant amount of money on taxi fares, flowers, marketing, hospitality and so on. How is it that all the tendering processes were ignored and this was accepted in the context of the audit and internal audit...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: It does not come across.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: May we publish the statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: I call on Dr. Ruaidhrí Neavyn of Waterford Institute of Technology.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: May we publish Dr. Neavyn's statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: May we publish Dr. Brady’s opening statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: I call on Dr. Prendergast to make his opening statement.