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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Visiting Teacher Service (27 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review carried out into the visiting teacher service; when the review will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3518/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Security of the Elderly (27 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 521. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the engagement that has taken place between his Department and the community alert organisation in respect of proposed changes to the seniors alert scheme; his plans to bring forward changes to the scheme; if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the witnesses who have come before the committee today. I have a question for the Comptroller and Auditor General. The work typically carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General is to oversee in excess of 300 organisations, bodies and agencies. How does the report on the NCAD compare with reports on other bodies?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: Would it be up there with the worst?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: How would Mr. McCarthy describe the structural accounting practices in NCAD?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: I refer to the Comptroller and General's opening statement. He said that the 2010/2011 accounts were certified on 28 December 2014, a three-year delay. What happened between NCAD and the Comptroller and Auditor General to get that over the line, so to speak, but has not resulted in certification of the accounts for 2011 and 2012?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is an external auditor used in such cases?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: Are other colleges in the same situation where the Comptroller and Auditor General is the sole external auditor?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: In the private sector if one cannot certify and stand over a set of accounts, one is struck off. Is it fair to say that we are looking at accounts going back to 2010 with serious questions about them? Does Mr. McCarthy agree that in the private and commercial sector that would not be tolerated?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have a question for Mr. Boland following from what the Comptroller and Auditor General has said. In anyone's estimation, what the HEA, being the funding agency for NCAD, has allowed to happen on its watch is an absolute scandal. Over the past five years or thereabouts, it has pumped approximately €100 million in taxpayers' money into a college that cannot provide a certified set of...

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: At no stage did the HEA ask to see a certified set of accounts.

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: What did it get?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: Did the authority inform the Department of Education and Skills?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: What response did it get from it?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: Did the authority formally communicate its concerns to the Department?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does Mr. Boland believe that was a mistake?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: Beyond the assurances the authority was getting from the college, which we know has considerable deficiencies, the authority essentially took it upon itself to continue to put money into the college and to continue operating under the existing governance systems without any changes.

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: When did the authority become aware of that?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: Since when?

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)

Patrick O'Donovan: When was that?