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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: Why 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: Based on all of the information we have been given today, or the lack thereof, we are looking at valuations and no valuations, invoices and no invoices, whistleblowers' information not being acted on, actions taken by directors and a clatter of other things. It is an unseemly mess. Does Mr. Griffin agree that it is necessary for the Department to notify the Garda that there could be a problem?
- 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 a police investigation?
- 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 DETI referred the matter to the PSNI?
- 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: What was the outcome?
- 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: Did the PSNI contact the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to request assistance in 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: The matter has not been investigated south of the Border?
- 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 should be reviewed. There is a great deal in the report that stinks to the high heavens. The way in which the matter was handled, from a public point of view, was absolutely appalling. Has there been any demand from the EU authorities for a refund in the aftermath of this incompetence? In other words, will there be any penalty for Ireland as a consequence of this shambles?
- 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 has indicated that he is satisfied the other INTERREG projects to which he referred are okay. He has mentioned that Bytel has been reincarnated as a company called Atlas Communications.
- 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 had dealings with that company?
- 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 Mr. Griffin know whether the State has had further dealings with 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: Is that something which will be checked out? Does the Department have any relationship with the new company?
- 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: How junior was the individual concerned?
- 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: So he was a grade above clerical officer level.
- 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 wish to revert to a point raised by the Chairman. Without scapegoating the aforementioned junior official, this official was appointed and put in place by somebody essentially to take responsibility for paying out money. Is that somebody within the Department, who put that junior official in that place, still there?
- 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: Yes.
- 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 that person retired or left or 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: Basically, the aforementioned junior official had no limit in terms of the amount of money he could pay out, did he? Once the demand came, it was just a case of paying it out.
- 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 there a requirement for him to report to anybody within the Department when he was signing off or paying out?
- 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: But he was not obliged to get authorisation or sign-off or second sign-off or anything like that.