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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: If Mr. Pollock had been involved at the time, would he have gone ahead with it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: I welcome the delegates. I imagine a lot of the questions I am going to ask refer to a period before the delegates' time but they will have familiarised themselves with the accounts in any event. The issue I start with is the big one, which is the impairment of just shy of €40 million. The board has finished its report, which went to the Comptroller and Auditor General and has now...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (23 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision will be made regarding a Student Universal Support Ireland application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway in view of the fact that all of the documents that the applicant has to prove independent residence have been furnished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40889/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (21 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received their disadvantaged area scheme payment; if it is being held up awaiting a satellite inspection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40427/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (21 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway received no payments for disadvantaged area scheme in respect of 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40428/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Will they come back in again soon?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 100. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway did not receive their disadvantaged area scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39595/14]

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Does Mr. McCarthy have any idea what that payment is?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Muintearas Teo. was caught out on this figure of €124,598. It never put up its hands and admitted that these children were never there, that these families never turned up. Technically, it could have continued.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: However, it should have been much lower.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Yes. What has happened in Muintearas Teo. since?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Does the person who signed off on this payment still have their job?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: On a weekly basis.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: What is the period?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: What is the payment from the family at the start of the year? What is their contribution to it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: It is not that I am interested in the figure, but I imagine that at the start of the year the family make a commitment. Yes, the child may become sick and not attend, but I do not think families will make a commitment at the start of the year and then pull out three weeks later and that we do not have checks and balances to identify this quickly.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: If a child is registered and does not attend, does over-staffing become an issue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Absolutely not, but after a mistake involving a sum of €124,000, are there checks and balances to ensure this cannot happen again?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: I imagine that after one month someone is going to say to the family that they have not seen the child for the last month, that the child is not attending.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: But it was not done before.