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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: May we publish Dr. Prendergast’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 now call on Professor Brian MacCraith.
- 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 thank Mr. McCarthy. We now turn to the opening statements and I call on Dr. Hugh Brady of UCD.
- 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 advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to the committee. If they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and continue to do so, they are entitled thereafter only to qualified privilege in respect of their evidence. They are directed that only evidence connected with the subject matter of...
- 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. Patrick Prendergast, provost of Trinity College, to introduce his officials.
- 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 Professor Brian MacCraith, president of DCU, to introduce his officials.
- 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, president of Waterford Institute of Technology, to introduce his officials.
- 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 welcome Mr. Ned Costello, chief executive of the Irish Universities Association. I invite Mr. Seamus McCarthy, Comptroller and Auditor General, to introduce Special Report 78: Matters Arising out of Education Audits.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: The clerk would do the letter in the normal course of events and, as the information comes in, someone would be working on it to compile it with the formal documentation that is available to members so that we are fully informed of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: How that comes about in terms of the timing of it will be a matter for the clerk and his staff who will put it together to ensure that everyone receives it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: I accept that and if members agree to it, it can be included. It is a valid point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: We will seek the information. No. 3 is correspondence received since our meeting on Thursday, 20 September 2012. No. 3C is individual correspondence - complaints. No. 3C1 is correspondence from Mr. Donagh Morgan, assistant secretary, Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. We deferred this at our last meeting. Deputy McDonald is not present again today. She is in the Chamber for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: That is okay. No. 3D is documents relating to today's meetings. No. 3D1 is correspondence received on 20 September 2012 from Professor Brian MacCraith, President, Dublin City University, re briefing papers on matters to be considered at the meeting of 27 September 2012. This is to be noted and published. No. 3D2 is correspondence received on 20 September 2012 from Dr. Patrick...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Before we deal with the business of the committee, I remind members that the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report on the 2011 accounts will be published today. At the end of the public session the Comptroller and Auditor General has agreed to give us a general briefing on the document. Before we leave, we will have an understanding of what is included generally in the document...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: As we agreed last week, after the meeting we will have a general briefing on the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report which will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: It will not be a detailed chapter by chapter report but more of a general overview for approximately half an hour.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: It will be private. We will not have seen the report at that stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: We will not take a break. We will have the briefing immediately after the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: The minute we finish the meeting we will go straight into the briefing. We will notify members who are absent and then have a general briefing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)
John McGuinness: Item No. 1 is the minutes of the last meeting. Are they agreed to? Agreed. Two matters arise from the minutes. One relates to the invitation from the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Joe Costello, to the committee to visit a country to examine the expenditure of development aid. The committee agreed that it would send a delegation later this...