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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: Around 100 have appealed. Mr. Tattan might come back to me with a breakdown.
- 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: Lovely. My second question relates to tendering. I refer to a school which I will not name. It was been brought to my attention that a sports hall was built. Vast amounts of public money went into that as well as fundraising. There was a proposal that a private company would operate it in the school system. Is that something the Department has been made aware of and what is its attitude...
- 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: No, I am not. People put in a lot of money.
- 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: If Mr. Tattan could listen, I will rephrase my question.
- 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: No, but I will be stopped. The Department has put in vast amounts of money, maybe €400,000, and there has been fundraising. It is being given out to a company to run it. There has been no tendering. Is that something the Department stands over or does it have a policy?
- 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: On additional schools, representations have been made. I know the Department wants to increase the number of non-religious schools or multidenominational schools. Educate Together in Galway has put forward a very comprehensive submission. It has highlighted differences with the Department of Education and Skills relating to the position of education in Galway where there are waiting lists...
- 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.