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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: There are serious implications for the Department of the Taoiseach in relation to the information being given in the Dáil. Is that not correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: No, there are serious implications when the Taoiseach is coming into the Dáil with insufficient information. Has Mr. Fraser or his Department any role in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Did Mr. Fraser or his Department have any role in this particular case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Or not coming----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: On the issue of governance-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: I am not going down the road of tribunals at this point. I am looking at processes because that is our role. We sat here examining the Project Eagle case. There would have been no need for the Cooke inquiry if answers had been given. A good and moderate report was done by the Comptroller and Auditor General simply highlighting the issues but the system did not deal with it. We sat here...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Okay. I thank Mr. Fraser for all the informative documents on the strategic communications unit. However, I do not see any document leading to the decision to set it up. Was there a business case setting it out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Was there a document with a business case setting out the need for the strategic communications unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: We do not have that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Every week we are here with various examinations, such as universities and so forth. We are often looking at the absence of business cases. What was the business case for the strategic communications unit? Is Mr. Fraser's answer that it was in a memo for the Government?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: I do mean the actual business case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: This is the Committee of Public Accounts. We are looking at documents and I try to stick to the issues. A strategic communications unit was set up, presumably on the basis of a business case. However, we do not have a copy of that business case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I cannot say if that was a good or a bad decision because I do not have a copy of the business case at the Committee of Public Accounts. Now, Mr. Fraser is telling us it is being wound down and the spin unit has spun itself out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: I am saying that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: It has metamorphosed rather than spun itself out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: We need to stick to the issues. I want to get to housing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: I have read all the letters. I am blue in the face from reading the stuff. It is a sad life to be on the Committee of Public Accounts. The witnesses might not think so. A unit is set up which is now being dismantled. Surely it is being dismantled on the basis that it was not complying with its objectives or the business case was not sound in the first place. Was the business case...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: Does that mean that the publicity around it was taking up too much of the Department's time?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: I find that difficult. If a business case is sound, then it should stand. It should not be wound down, spun out or changed just because there is political pressure. It should be based on solid reasons.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Catherine Connolly: I have to say that I am most unhappy with that. If there is a need for a communications unit - I was outspoken on it during the budget statements - a business case will set out why it is needed, what will be saved and then a decision is made on that basis. There was a high monitoring group set up, the CSMB.