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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: It is not into the former VEC.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Without delving into the substantive detail of the investigation, and I will choose my words carefully, we now know that the Comptroller and Auditor General was not satisfied with the responses from Kildare and Wicklow ETB. Similarly, the Department of Education and Skills was not satisfied and was concerned about the responses. Was Mr. Ruttle trying to mislead the Comptroller and Auditor...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Or to frustrate.
- 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 not charging the witness with that. I am clarifying-----
- 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, it is a question.
- 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 is a question. The fact that the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Department did not get the information they needed or found themselves left with no option but to launch this investigation was not because Mr. Ruttle was in any way trying to frustrate or failing to provide the necessary information. That is what I am trying to ascertain.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. Ruttle a councillor?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: In what area is Mr. Ruttle elected?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Turning to Mr. Ashe, the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Department were not happy with the information he was providing. What is his response 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: The witness is not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Ashe will not be prejudicing anything.
- 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 asking Mr. Ashe the question. The Comptroller and Auditor General and the Department were dissatisfied with the information in his correspondence. Was Mr. Ashe deliberately-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----trying to withhold information?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Clearly, Mr. Ashe does not, or at least there is a question mark over whether he operates to any level of corporate governance. I remind him that there is an investigation under way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: He should not put such a statement on the public record while this investigation is under way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: He needs to withdraw that comment.
- 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 cannot hear Mr. Loftus.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: My preference is always for public session, but I do understand that we have hit a brick wall here and we need to decide what we are going to do.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Gender Balance (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 47. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the gender balance on each of the State boards under her remit, in tabular form. [48557/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gender Balance (16 Nov 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance the gender balance on each of the State boards under his remit, in tabular form. [48564/17]