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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Post-primary.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am aware of that. That has all been set out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is very good. We are not arguing about patrons here. That is not the issue. The point is Educate Together in Galway has come forward to say it has comprehensive facts which are different from what the Department has said, so an engagement would be lovely.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Are there other cases that are presenting as a group that could be addressed not through the courts but by way of policy, thus reducing legal costs for the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am very concerned that Mr. Ó Foghlú has no difficulty with the commercialisation of research. Is there a policy on this? Does it apply to some types of research rather than others? I am very concerned that he has no difficulty with practising heads of research holding positions in companies that may be located on the property. We are at the end of a session but it is a major...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Does the Department of Education and Skills have any protocol for these things?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I understand that. I am asking about the Department. The Department deals with education, which is completely different from enterprise.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am talking about the commercialisation of public space and research - essentially the commercialisation of mind. Has the Department thought about this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am talking about education for education's sake. Education is absolutely fundamental so what policy does the Department have for the commercialisation of research? What is the impact on one area of research as opposed to another? In medicine, the biggest advances were made by the most practical solutions such as the building of sewerage systems and adequate housing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I will return to the question of the school I mentioned, whose public hall is to be leased out. Mr. Ó Foghlú said the Department was in the process of drawing up guidelines.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have no difficulty with that and it is a wonderful idea for the community to use school buildings, but I am specifically talking about a company being given the running of this hall. What is the policy around that? Did Mr. Ó Foghlú say there were guidelines?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: This is a school. The hall has been financed substantially by the Department of Education and Skills and there has been substantial fund-raising but now it is proposed that a private company-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is not owned by the State but the Department has given substantial funds to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Department stands over a situation where it may not be tendered out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Chairman asked about public private partnerships, PPPs. Mr. Ó Foghlú said the Department had diversified in regard to school buildings and that some would be under PPPs while others would be dealt with by the Office of Public Works. Has the Department done a cost analysis or other comparison? I was on a VEC many years ago and PPPs were all the rage but they turned out to be a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I thank the Chair.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I missed that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is that in schedule in the appendix that Mr. O'Brien gave us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I know that. I refer to the appendix of correspondence. I do not see a reference to 24 February. It seems to start with 6 March.