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Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Does the standardised version apply to 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have two accountants in the room who have difficulty with the accounts, so there is a problem with them.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is one of the first set of financial statements we have seen from the ETBs, and if this is the format of all of them, I do not know how members who do not have a financial qualification will understand them. I am saying to the Department and whoever is over the ETBs that this structure and presentation format is Victorian and we need a current up-to-date format. The witnesses can take...

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Ms Murphy has indicated.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: From that time.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is it possible for somebody here to get it?

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is it possible for this information to be emailed to the committee within the next hour or so?

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: You are not to identify any individual.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have got a message from the Oireachtas broadcasting system. Please put all devices on airplane mode. Silent mode is not enough. You cannot be sending text messages in the committee room. It is interfering with the recording system. That is across the board and applies to everyone in the room and those in the Visitors Gallery.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is a matter for the Garda. Let us be clear. The Comptroller and Auditor General produced this report. In normal circumstances we would look at this situation. In the interim the matter has been referred to the Garda. One could make the case that we should not be discussing the matter because it is before the Garda, but we decided to discuss the matter within very limited strictures....

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am moving on to Deputy Connolly because Deputy Aylward has taken 23 minutes in a 15 minute slot.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is a time overrun and a cost overrun.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Explain the chambers for the benefit of the public.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The board normally meets in the council chambers.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is a national issue now.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: And there are staffing recruitment and retention issues?

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The then chief executive officer.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Ó Foghlú said he had to wait for the reports.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Would Mr. Merrick, as chairman of the board, like to comment briefly?

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Kelly referred to the audit. As we know, the internal audit function is facing challenges and there is external support based in County Cavan. It is a nationwide service although Dublin has yet to be included. Who decides what particular aspect of the organisation an internal audit should examine? If the team travels from County Cavan, how does it know what it is coming to do? What...