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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I express my thanks for all the work and follow up in respect of this. I appreciate it and it arose directly from the previous sessions. I have the information before but I cannot say I have read it in detail. I usually do but I have not on this occasion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I support the suggestion from Deputy David Cullinane that we come back to it. I want to place this in context. We have had repeated calls for fees - we actually have them for universities but they are called registration charges - and claims that universities are starved of money. To make a judgment, we need all the information. We have never gotten that. However, the one-sided mantra...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I wish to raise a practical issue, albeit I cannot remember the exact details. On the Gort-Tuam scheme, there was a question of a particular body in Europe examining that among other schemes. Documentation was not given over because it was asserted that there was no obligation to provide it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: It was left like that. TII said it would not provide the documentation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: As I said on the day, I find that extraordinary. This was put forward. We are talking about transparency and later we will be discussing fiscal transparency. We are learning all of these beautiful words. This was an example where TII could have shone, given over the documents and said, "This is a wonderful project which has come in ahead time". It is strange. I wonder what the Court of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I remember that but, on the European side, they said they did and that the private company came under that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I looked at the documentation. Where is the business case? Am I missing it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: As a business case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Is it easily identifiable?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Following up on our meeting on 29 March, which I acknowledge is a long time ago, the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht was before us. It was to come back to us, in fairness to it, on Foras na Gaeilge and a business case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay, as long as we are following up on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Catherine Connolly: The fiscal transparency chapter by the Comptroller and Auditor General dates to July 2017. What specific progress has been made since then?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Catherine Connolly: I understand that. I am no expert and I am guided by experts in this. My job is to ask questions on progress. Since the chapter from July 2017, what has been set up?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Catherine Connolly: The IMF was here in 2013. Those recommendations were made in 2013, five years ago. Was most progress made following the Comptroller and Auditor General's chapter?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Catherine Connolly: The progress was made then and that was when the budget process got all the green circles.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Catherine Connolly: Yes, that is lovely. We are giving a green tick to the budget process and saying it has improved significantly and there are just three outstanding recommendations. What are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Catherine Connolly: I am looking at diagram 5.1 where the budget process gets all the greens. We have three orange, or they might be red. I am a bit colour blind so I cannot make out if it is orange or red. In any event, what are those three?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Catherine Connolly: I am looking at figure 5.1 which sets out the progress from the Comptroller and Auditor General's chapter.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Catherine Connolly: Will Mr. Beausang repeat what he said about PPPs? He said it a bit too quickly for me to understand. I understand what he said about pensions. What was said about PPP liabilities?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Catherine Connolly: Is there a deadline for the completion of the work on the financial management shared service?