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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)

Seán Fleming: The witness should provide as much detail as possible on that in terms of how the institution chooses to break down the academic and non-academic staff according to the different grades. There was a specific breakdown in the briefing note to the committee of the non-academic staff between library, technical, administrative and support services. Perhaps the witness would give us the...

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

Seán Fleming: Okay. The other issue I wish to raise is cash balances across all the colleges. People will be surprised to read in page 13 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report of the net cash balances in the universities and institutes of technology. At the end of 2010 there was €573 million in cash sitting in the bank. At the end of the 2011 academic year there was €706...

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

Seán Fleming: What is it-----

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

Seán Fleming: If the witness will bear with me, I will come to that recommended cash balance because I do not accept that recommendation for a minute. I do not believe this committee will accept it either by the time we are finished considering it. We will come to that report shortly because it is referred to again at the bottom of page 13. We have representatives of the best third level institutions in...

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

Seán Fleming: Were they in bank shares-----

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

Seán Fleming: -----or in cash?

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

Seán Fleming: The Higher Education Authority, HEA, produced a report some years. It is stated at the end of page 13 that the report of the working group recommended that third level institutions should have between 45 and 60 day's income in cash to enable them to respond to opportunities and risk in many of their day-to-day activities. We accept it is good to have a cash balance. However, the overall...

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

Seán Fleming: I will move to a slightly different topic and address my questions to Dr. Prendergast from Trinity College Dublin. A large section of the report is about the employment control framework, so will he give us a pen picture of that? In the note presented to the committee, the income for the year is €320 million. How much of that goes on staff? What is the average staff cost in Trinity?

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

Seán Fleming: The notes indicate that there was income of €320 million, with 1,365 academic staff and 1,474 non-academic staff. The total staff is 2,839.

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

Seán Fleming: That would equate to an average cost per person of approximately €75,000.

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

Seán Fleming: It would be helpful in order to get a picture of where we are going. We are dealing with the minutiae of 27 staff here and there with allowances, but it is important to know where we are starting. The average is approximately €76,435. That includes senior academic posts down to the people lower down.

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

Seán Fleming: I understand that but those are the full-time posts. The witness has indicated that he does not understand what figure I am using but I am using the one read out to us an hour ago.

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

Seán Fleming: It came from the briefing note. I am just asking for context. The college educates 17,000 students and employs 2,839 full-time equivalent staff, of whom 1,365 are academic, with the remainder being library, technical, administrative and support staff. This is the information provided by the witnesses to us. We just want a picture of Trinity before delving into specific employment. The...

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

Seán Fleming: Could the witness explain that as we are confused?

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

Seán Fleming: A romantic.

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

Seán Fleming: An issue members should be conscious of is that Deputies, Ministers and Senators would be in receipt of various allowances. It is important that in conducting a review of allowances, we are conscious that Members of the Oireachtas, Ministers, and others, in terms of leaders' allowances and so on, are also in receipt of these allowances. Are the allowances being paid to Members of the...

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

Seán Fleming: I understand from the last meeting that we would write directly to Mr. Treacy. I would like to receive a copy of that letter. I am aware this other correspondence was received since last week and when I have an opportunity to study the recent correspondence, I will seek to raise the issue at another meeting.

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

Seán Fleming: Will it be public or private?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if he and the HSE are committed to maintaining the full range of services at the South Infirmary Victoria Hospital following reconfiguration of the health services in the Cork area; and if he will make a statement on the matter [40962/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Sep 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if the special delivery unit has achieved its target of a nine month maximum wait time for inpatient and daycase surgery by September 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40975/12]