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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I will leave it at that. You have come into a new role and are having to deal with these issues. We will look to him to see a resolution of this. I also acknowledge Mr. McFeely's role in this but I reiterate the point made by colleagues. I am concerned about the performance of the individual who instigated the behaviour that is of concern and equally why, with the exception of Mr. McFeely...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Professor MacCraith gave me a sense of what is happening within DCU on that point.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I would like to go on to another observation made in the report, on page 43, on the measuring of staff time as part of a revised costing model. The point the report made was that a new system was brought in to better allocate funding from the Exchequer to universities. It wanted to come up with a way to understand the use of staff time and the resulting outputs. One of the observations in...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I want to go back to that point to allow Dr. Brady to elaborate, because it is an important one on which to be clear from the point of view of people looking at this. There is a difference between having an amount of money in a bank account which is uncommitted, in particular an amount of money which is so large, and an amount of money of which use will be made in the short term to fund the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: It is important to be clear about it. The amount of money we are talking about here is not surplus money.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: This is money that comes in in a variety of different ways and different commitments exist on which that money must be spent. That is correct.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I just want to be clear on that. Do similar arrangements exist in DCU?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Fleming made a useful suggestion that it would be helpful to understand where those figures stand in terms of our national accounts overall and how they are registered. I just wanted to clarify the discussion which ensued earlier. The Comptroller and Auditor General's report must be seen in the context of the report done in September 2010, which was special report No. 73, and I want...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Do we know what was going on at those locations?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: That leads on to my next question: what is happening now as a result of the revelations in front of us?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Ross is right that it will be difficult for us to evaluate our own allowances but at the very least we can, as a committee, go through the same process regarding those allowances as we can on others, which is, get out the information as to what they are worth, how they are evaluated and whether there is a business case behind them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Did the Chairman say at what time the briefing will be given?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Thank you, Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (27 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 has been relocated to Shelton Abbey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41135/12]

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: It is entirely appropriate that as the Minister sits here and listens to the debate, she has a copy of the Constitution in front of her. Perhaps she carries it with her all of the time but it is particularly appropriate that she has it here tonight because, of course, it is the Constitution itself that we are seeking to change. As we do this, it is appropriate to reflect on where the...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: It is entirely appropriate that as the Minister sits here and listens to the debate, she has a copy of the Constitution in front of her. Perhaps she carries it with her all of the time but it is particularly appropriate that she has it here tonight because, of course, it is the Constitution itself that we are seeking to change. As we do this, it is appropriate to reflect on where the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (26 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the Health Service Executive difficulties in the supply of the Stelazine drug to the market here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40937/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future of Europe: Discussion with Vice President of European Commission (25 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the Vice President to the meeting. I had the privilege of welcoming her to St. Vincent's national school for girls in Dublin Central this morning. Ms Reding is fortunate to have had an opportunity to visit the best constituency in the country during her stay in Ireland and to see one of our finest schools. The staff and pupils did an excellent job in demonstrating their ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Sep 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the position of a school (details supplied) currently on his Department's school building programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40376/12]