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- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, I am posing a question. I am saying that is a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am saying that is a question we need to arrive at. Another one of the terms of reference is around conflicts of interests. Can I ask Mr. Ashe if his son works in procurement for the Kildare and Wicklow ETB?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am simply asking Mr. Ashe to establish the fact. Does his son work in that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is hardly an investigation as to whether or not the witness's son works in procurement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I respectfully decline to accept Mr. Ashe's stonewalling.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. Ashe's son work in a procurement function for the ETB and when did he enter into that position? That is all I want to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sorry, Mr. Ashe's primary responsibility is to co-operate with this committee. Does the witness not understand that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, the witness will co-operate with this committee today. He will demonstrate respect for the Oireachtas and for the people who are elected by the taxpayers, the same people who fund Mr. Ashe's operation, and who pay his salary. He will answer my question. It is a simple "Yes" or "No". Does Mr Ashe's son work in procurement? I am not casting an aspersion. I am trying to establish...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Since when, Mr. Ashe?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure he does. Since when is he in that position?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sometime since 2013 anyway, is it? Or is it prior to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: How does the witness manage conflicts of interest as a matter of interest as chief executive? What systems are in place to manage that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Has the witness had occasion to declare a conflict of interest himself?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Stop saying that, Mr. Ashe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It serves no useful purpose to repeat that ad nauseambar to cause irritation on this side of the committee room, which I am sure is not the witness's aim.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: From Dr. Thorn?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: So Mr. Ashe will come to committee and answer-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----when he adjudicates that it is the right time to come.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Just to repeat that it is an astonishing thing that an independent investigator, and presumably Dr. Thorn, would advance the position of his independence, and would advise witnesses coming before an Oireachtas committee not to answer our questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can the investigator look back as far as 2012 and before that to 2004? In other words, can the investigation reach back to the Kildare VEC?