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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: We will come to it. I hope it is comprehensive, given that the request was made three months ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: Is it comprehensive? I cannot remember the detail of the request because it was made so long ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: I ask the Chairman to put it on the screen. We might as well deal with it now as the matters are connected.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: I now know why I did not remember it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: On what date was that sent?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: This matter has been going on since 3 July. Is the Department hoping the Government will collapse and the committee will fall away? That correspondence issued three months after our basic request for information regarding CCTV. I have significant experience of this issue because I allocated funding for it when I was Minister. Three months after the request was made, the Department has not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: I thank the Chair. The Department is acting the maggot.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: It is unacceptable for the Department to take so long to respond on these two issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: We should note that the Department in question is the Department of Justice and Equality. In the light of previous replies on other issues in that Department over the past year, it needs to up its game very quickly under its new Secretary General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: We are going to have to hold that over. There is nearly a meeting in that correspondence alone.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: There are an awful lot of issues there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: CIT is the gift that keeps on giving. The president, Dr. O'Connor, had an opportunity to break from the past but we are going around in circles and it has been going on for years. Nothing has been learnt. Last year, the committee said governance was poor and risk management non-existent, and now CIT is trying to tell us again that there is nothing to see here. I could talk on this for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: The new president was here the last time CIT was before us and he has had an opportunity to do something about it. We gave him that opportunity but this is more of the same. It is like being wrapped up in the same clothes again. What are we going to do? We cannot keep going on like this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: There are further issues relating to the famous party and to multiple whistleblowers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: They were here this year and last year. There was a big gang of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: That is about accurate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: We will have to think about it for next week. I will leave it with a final comment. As a collective, we will have to come to some decision because it is insulting to keep having to go around in circles. We are getting nowhere. Everyone knows this has to go further but we cannot go any further with this type of correspondence. Where, as a committee, do we go next?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: There may be things to learn from Dr. Love's departure and the issues he raised in his resignation letter about the HEA and the Department. There are different interpretations in how this was conducted. We all know that the terms of reference, and the manner in which the investigation was done, was wrong. One cannot investigate oneself.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: It is helpful. I know the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, for instance, in the Cork branch has passed motions looking to recoup this money, including from the president. There has been much correspondence and commentary on it, and it is a welcome development. Having said that, we will see what happens. It is a small component of a bigger picture.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: I am somewhat concerned about when Dr. Love is leaving. We did not extend to October.