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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I will leave it at that and ask the Department to give as much consideration as it can to the request regarding Dublin's north side. I thank the delegates for the preparation that went into this meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Not particularly. The context is that we had a hearing with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport several weeks ago and it made the point it is engaging with CIE on its accounts on a fortnightly basis, or perhaps more frequently, to understand the viability of the company and ensure it continues to be stable and do well in the future. Given this level of penetration I am struck by...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I am sure some of my colleagues will return to this point. I wish to touch on the issue of patronage at second level. The Educate Together movement was mentioned. Work is under way to try to identify a further second level school for Educate Together on the north side of Dublin. What is the Department's perspective of how this work is going?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Does anybody have the job to look at the various centralising activities that have taken place in the State in the past two years in order to ensure the next one goes better? I accept that Mr. Ó Foghlú is not a medic or an expert in medical cards, but there must be somebody who looks at the processing of carer's applications and medical card applications in order to ascertain what...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I think that is key. As someone involved in these matters in my constituency and from commenting on them in the Oireachtas, I can see a clear thread of lessons across these different activities that should be picked up and made public. I hope the report we mentioned earlier will allow that to happen. I wish to discuss PPPs in the educational sphere. The Comptroller and Auditor General...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: How long have they been in operation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: What is the lifespan of the project?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: The Department will review one set of schools delivered via the PPP route and another set that were delivered via the so-called traditional route, and compare both.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Who is undertaking that work at the moment?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: When will that work be complete?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Will a copy of that be made available?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I want to pick up on that phrase, which represents a real challenge for us. Whenever we raise a question over how they perform, we are told we cannot be given the actual information because of commercial sensitivity. While I understand that, it makes it very difficult to carry out a public evaluation of the performance of these projects.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I was about to ask about that matter. Surely there is a point at which the commercial sensitivity becomes less of a concern than it was previously. For example, some companies that were involved in tendering for the PPPs may no longer be in existence. Will we reach a point when a decision can be made to release some of the information because it will no longer have the market sensitivity...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: The largest of them under consideration at the moment is the Grangegorman project, a gigantic project involving more than 70 acres in the city centre. How is that proceeding?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: From an Exchequer point of view, as Mr. Ó Foghlú has acknowledged, it is not just a PPP. It is a variety of them with some direct State funding going in also. Can Mr. Ó Foghlú confirm that we are funded at the moment to deliver the commitments we have in order to ensure that project is delivered on time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: School transport is a topic of interest to many of my colleagues. An issue which keeps arising is the contention that Bus Éireann does not make a profit from the school transport scheme. I understand this was referenced in a recent court case. Will Mr. Ó Foghlú give the committee an understanding of the information which allows this conclusion to be drawn?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the officials and thank them for their preparation for this session. Given the number of files in front of Ms Dowling, I am led to think there will not be a question I can ask for which she will not have a comprehensive answer. I have questions on public private partnerships, primary schools, the status of the Grangegorman project, school transport and school patronage. However,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Mr. Ó Foghlú said that when the applications started to come in, issues became apparent. The same happened with the processing of medical card applications. He said lessons were learned. What lessons were learned from the medical cards issue that helped with this process?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (26 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an invalidity pension appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9804/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (26 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9738/13]