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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)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes, but I asked about the audit committee.

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: The reason we are here is that from 2009 up to now there has been a trail of destruction in respect of certified accounts from the institution. We are trying to find out why that is the case and what has happened to make it different.

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 the board fit for purpose?

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: But the systems are not?

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: Whose fault is 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: Who is responsible for the systems and practices 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)

Patrick O'Donovan: Who 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)

Patrick O'Donovan: If the systems were not fit for purpose over a five-year period, surely the management in the college was not fit for purpose either.

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: That does not explain the period 2004 to 2009 nor does it explain why every other third level institute, many of whose names are included in the McCarthy report and had question marks hanging over them, is not in the situation in which the NCAD finds itself. That response does not explain the position.

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: Some of the smaller teacher training colleges do not have that structure.

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: That does not take from the fact that what we are talking about here is the accounts. We are talking about the systems within the NCAD, its relationship with the HEA, and the HEA's relationship with the Department of Education and Skills, which have been an unmitigated disaster. Nothing was done over five years until the Comptroller and Auditor General decided enough was enough and...

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 Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Decentralisation Programme Expenditure (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 14 January 2015, if he will provide details of properties that were leased for the purposes of decentralisation during the period of 1997 to 2011, to which no agencies or personnel were assigned; the amount agreed to in respect of each lease; the annual cost of each; and if he will make a...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Agreements: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I appreciate the Minister said the development of the Canadian market is very important from an Irish point of view. In that context our national carrier especially in terms of the development of further transatlantic routes out of Dublin and Shannon is of huge importance to the economy. There has been much recent commentary on a possible sale of a Government stake in Aer Lingus. The...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Agreements: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is a fine big port in Foynes as well.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 48. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce minimum standards for the delivery of publicly funded private and public home care for elderly persons and vulnerable adults in their own homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2350/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 60. To ask the Minister for Health the total Health Service Executive budget for food and catering; if the HSE has considered a single system for procurement of food and setting of menus in HSE-run hospitals and residences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2349/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance the numbers of persons who availed of the artists exemption scheme in 2014; the amount of income to which the scheme related; the top ten earners who availed of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2904/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grassland Sheep Scheme Payments (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has not received a grassland payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2924/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has not received their suckler cow grant payment and single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2925/15]