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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: The curriculum is different than that of many institutes, as they are not as engaged in art and design courses. Is there a comparable college in the country?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: In light of value for money, start-up companies and the next generation of business people, does NCAD work with industry?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: Given staff and other costs, is the break even point approximately €400,000 per week?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: Regarding reassurances about the retrospective accounts, I do not doubt that the HEA has perfected its template in other colleges. Will Professor McGonagle reassure the committee that the correct template has been installed in the college?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: Perhaps in hindsight it was a retrograde step not to put in a procedure for accounts. If 128 staff are taken with pay and pensions as 82% of accounted expenditure, the 18% remaining is for incidental expenses within the college. It is approximately, at most, €4 million per year; that is the real and auditable figure. It should be very easy to audit that figure, not the €20...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: I have met the students. They will play a critical role in the economy, particularly in the entrepreneurship area, including start-up companies. It is a valuable space that is filled by the college. The Comptroller and Auditor General has done retrospective accounts but has any due diligence been carried out on the financial management recently?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: I wish Mr. O'Laoire well.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: I compliment Mr. O'Laoire on his tenure as chairman. I was impressed on my visit to the facility, and it was strongly suggested that at some stage members of the Committee of Public Accounts could see at first hand the level of enterprise and creativity in students. It was very reassuring and I was impressed from a viewpoint of how new businesses or start-up companies could come about. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: Does the witness agree there must be very exacting standards? There is no tokenism in awarding the status of technological university. People do not want tokenism or goodwill without the institutions meeting the required educational capacity to justify the university tag. Is that an independent adjudication?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: I am glad to hear that. I thank Mr. Boland.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: The point is the remainder of the expenditure is more controllable from the perspective of getting a statutory declaration of pensions, entitlements and wages. Once the payroll, people in receipt of pensions and the 128 staff are considered, it can be easier to quantify.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: Is Mr. McCarthy saying they were paid outside the books?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

John Perry: Has that difficulty been resolved?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

John Perry: I compliment the element of reinvestment in hotels which will have a massive tourist potential for Ireland. I welcome also the clear vision with which they have been remanaged. I have spoken to a number of developers who got a second chance, which is very important. These are Irish people who have made mistakes but are getting a second chance. That up to 80,000 jobs are being created a...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

John Perry: It is good to hear that NAMA has a strategy for consortia from outside Dublin because there is a two-tier economy operating at the moment. The commercial realities in Dublin are very different to those in the west of Ireland and in smaller towns and villages all over the country. Many people joined property consortia outside of their main business interests and they are finding it very...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

John Perry: I am glad to hear that there is an understanding and respect for those involved in consortia. We have all heard about the cases involving larger companies but the backbone of Ireland is small companies. Many of them got involved in ill-conceived investments that were not connected to their main businesses. We need to revitalise that engine of job creation. I would be very interested in...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

John Perry: I reiterate my compliments to NAMA on what has been an extraordinary achievement when one looks back to the time of the board's appointment and when one considers that NAMA is two years ahead of its targets. While I compliment the chairman on the leadership given in this regard, I have one or two queries. In the context of the present position with regard to small businesspeople, I refer...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

John Perry: I welcome the chairman and chief executive officer of NAMA and compliment them on the update - as of June - in the report. It is highly impressive and I note that Mr. Daly, as Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners and chairman of NAMA since its inception, certainly has given huge service to the State. I ask him to share his thoughts on NAMA and the challenging job it has been since its...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (17 Dec 2014)

John Perry: 136. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Health Service Executive in Sligo has failed to provide services to a child (details supplied) in County Sligo despite the fact that after two years of waiting for these services, it has failed to communicate anything to the parent of the child despite continual requests; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Public Accounts Committee: Credit Union Fund Accounts 2013; Credit Resolution Institution Fund Accounts 2013; and Credit Union Restructuring Board Accounts 2013 (11 Dec 2014)

John Perry: On that point, I was involved with the microfinance fund. While the Government is anxious that aid under the microfinance fund be dispensed, there is much red tape around draw down from it. The state aid rules which will apply over the next five years are very liberal and are a signal that the European Investment Fund, EIF, and European Investment Bank, EIB, are determined to reignite...