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Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is the figure inclusive of service charges?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is inclusive of VAT and service charges.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: What was the cost? Ms Downes mentioned there was no extra person so what was the reason for the additional cost?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: There was a CEO in position and another person was acting CEO. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: In regard to the person who was acting CEO, was it a person who was already in the organisation?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The cost was minimal because the two people concerned were already on the payroll.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: When Ms Downes was acting CEO, the knock-on effect was that somebody else was acting up in regard to her role.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Were additional staff recruited as a result of the upward movement in roles?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: There was no additional cost because the personnel involved were already on the payroll.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The witnesses might provide some follow-up information in that regard.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have a few questions for the witnesses. On the 317 cases on hand, what we need from Ms Downes is information regarding the dates on which they were received. It was mentioned that some of them have been to hand for several years.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: How can some applications be four years on file before being closed? I ask the witnesses to explain why if a person contacted the organisation in 2014 with an issue four years later it is still not addressed.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I get the picture. In regard to the winding up process, how does Caranua propose to deal with these cases? What approach will it take to these intermittent contacts? Will they be a matter for the Department? The legislation refers to the tying up of outstanding assets and liabilities that might arise from the work of Caranua. Who will estimate that? Will it be taken on by the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: What does Ms Dwyer mean by "on low funding?"

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: So Caranua's case workers help people get over the line.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: There is one thing I do not get from what I have been hearing so far. It has been said that of the 317 outstanding cases, 95% or thereabouts are first-time applicants. Caranua has made payments to about approximately 6,000 people. I see in the annual report how Caranua has made payments of €11,500 to survivors to date. This means that on average, 6,000 people got two payments....

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Caranua has made payments to-----

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is Ms Downes telling me that they are just cheques, three of which could have been to the same person?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That does not come out. Ms Downes understands that figure but nobody other than whoever wrote that could get that impression from that. When I see €11,500 under payments made to survivors, I would assume that there are 11,000 different cases but they might have all been a series of stage payments. That figure does not mean what I thought it meant. That is fine. Caranua will give...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I see in the accounts, and it will be the same next year, that everybody who joined Caranua will be part of the single public service pension scheme because they all joined after 2013. At the end of the day, the Department will take over liability for all those pensions when Caranua is gone. Will a figure be put on that in this wind up or will it just get paid when people retire, as is the...