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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Was this the first knowledge the Ministers had of the issue?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Was it at the January 2011 meeting the Ministers first had notice of the matter?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Therefore, the first the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform who is ultimately the paymaster in this matter heard of it was from Mr. Colgan in January 2011?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is it the case that the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources did not inform the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: To clarify, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform was informed of this matter by Mr. Colgan at the meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council and this was the first he had heard of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That is unbelievable. This money has vanished; nobody was or will be fired as a consequence, and the first the person ultimately responsible for the State's expenditure knew of it was when Mr. Colgan notified him at the meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not have a difficulty with that. My concern is that there seems to have been no communication between the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, the Southern leg of the arrangement, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Does Mr. Griffin accept that is a fair conclusion?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: However, the Minister was not.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Griffin does not even know if his own Minister was informed.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is the Minister who will ultimately be held accountable by the public in this matter. Mr. Griffin has indicated that nobody was fired as a consequence of what had happened. Are all of the departmental staff who dealt with this matter in the same roles or has any of them been promoted?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has he been promoted?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Where is he now?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does he have an expenditure remit?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has the Department to which he moved been made aware of this matter?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: After serving as Accounting Officer in the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, this individual was moved to another Department. We do not where he is - a little like the racks - and what new role he is performing.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Neither do I.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The taxpayer is out of pocket to the tune of €2 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have been here for all of the meeting. In response to Deputy Derek Nolan, Mr. Griffin said he was confident, based on internal audit reports from the DETI and others, that what had happened here could not happen again. I cannot say I am similarly confident, based on what I have heard today. In fact, I would say all of the INTERREG projects to which Mr. Colgan referred should be examined...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Were they internal audits?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is the nature of auditing that has us here. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform did not hear about this matter until 2011. We do not know whether the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has been told about it. He will probably read about it in tomorrow's newspapers and, for all we know, it might be the first he will have heard of it. It is a shambles....