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- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Ms Higgins had ample time to foresee and plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Good. Then in January 2014 we start receiving applications. Anybody can answer my questions. I am not addressing them to a particular witness. There is a board. Mr. O'Callaghan is chair of that board.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: He should feel free to answer these questions. From January 2014 onwards, for the following three months, the organisation is simply overwhelmed. Is that accurate? How many thousand applications came in? I think it was 2,500 in three months. The witnesses should correct me if I am wrong.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: So the organisation was overwhelmed. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Absolutely. I have to ask these questions. There were nine months in which to anticipate this. The commission had reported. Ms Higgins knew exactly how many applications were going to come before the organisation. I forgot Mr. Yeomans's role.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Where did Ms Higgins go with her difficulties when she had so few staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Where did Ms Higgins go? This is a major problem. The organisation is overwhelmed. What happened? Did Ms Higgins report to the board and tell it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: When did Mazars come in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The recruitment for Mazars-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: No. I asked when Mazars came in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Callaghan was in the middle of telling me about Mazars and I interrupted him to ask him when Mazars came in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Who were they?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is acknowledged in the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Caranua has acknowledged it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: When Mr. O'Callaghan says agency staff, is that to get employees in to answer the phones?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: When did Mazars come in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Caranua has a full complement of staff now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Callaghan can see the difficulty from my point of view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Can somebody from the Department of Education and Skills explain how this was allowed to happen? Nine months after the organisation was set up it was completely overwhelmed as soon as it opened for applications.