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- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: In regard to the note regarding a refugee resettlement programme, can Ms McGeever tell me a bit about that expenditure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was it a once-off involvement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: In terms of the expenditure was that a one-off expense?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: How many families are involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that. How was the grant of €37,500 spent?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was that a once-off grant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: In regard to Kildare and Wicklow ETB, unfortunately, I cannot offer any congratulations in terms of its accounts. Mr. Ashe is the CEO. Perhaps the other officials would identify themselves.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Ms Daly Lynam is very welcome.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Serious issues have been raised with the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit. Is that right? Matters have been raised. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That audit is on hold for the moment because an independent investigation is ongoing. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: We are here to ensure that public money is spent properly and, as best we can with our foolish questions, we try to hold witnesses to account. We look at governance, procedures and so on and we are always learning. The finance officer might be the best person to answer my questions in a second, but I will ask the vice chairman a number of questions first. Did Mr. Ruttle discuss with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Ruttle to listen to my question. Did he discuss it with the board? Was his presence before the Committee of Public Accounts an item on the agenda?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was it an item on the agenda?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was not an item on the agenda.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Why was that? Why was such a serious matter not an item on the agenda?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Good, but why was it not put down as an item? Mr. Ruttle is before the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I will speak to the vice chairman, if that is okay, for a moment. I will come to other witnesses in a second. Who made the decision not to put that serious item down on the agenda?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: When did Mr. Ruttle become aware that he had to appear here today?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: When?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Two weeks, five weeks, four weeks - when?