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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: We asked for a copy of the risk register in respect of the Garda College. The response to that request states that An Garda Síochána risk registers are restricted documents, with only those involved in the risk management process or the auditing of risk being provided access to them. Would that be the norm? Second, are we not entitled to copies of the risk registers? I would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: Why was it not revealed to this committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: They can be redacted.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: Can we set a deadline of one week because we have been waiting for months for this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: That is five months ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: I thank Deputy Cullinane for his comments. He has basically said what I wanted to express. Effectively in my own constituency, three Deputies are attacking me politically. Now, I am a big boy and I can take it. That is not the issue. They are attacking me because through the process by which this committee works, in conjunction with the Comptroller and Auditor General, issues relating to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: I do not want there to be a conflict in terms of the issues being in our constituencies because we all live in Ireland.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: Yes. I raised this matter previously. Effectively, we have had to drag these figures from those involved in terms of the costs and the breakdown of them. We asked for them in numerous different ways. The total figure is alarming. More than €571,000 has been spent on a proposed merger and we do not know if it will ever materialise. The other figures are also quite disturbing....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: Merger.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: Not alone that, but the Chairman will remember from evidence we went through here and documentation we sought that there were board minutes regarding this decision that were not published. There were also questions at the time about the whether the boards agreed with the merger in the first place, but yet it has proceeded at a cost. These are only legal costs and we can imagine all the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: I know, but in a proposed merger such as this one-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: -----there are professional costs across the board. This is only expenditure of more than €571,000 in one category.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: My jaw nearly hit the ground when I read this. We have raised issues here on numerous occasions about the use of taxpayers' money by universities and colleges. I wonder whether my alma materhas learned anything. Obviously this is a vast sum of money. That is one thing, and UCC can make its own decisions about it, and it is not what I am questioning. At committee meetings we have had...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: The issue of whether or not this is good for the college is not something I am debating. That is a choice it has to make. Personally, I think it is ridiculous but that is a different thing. The issue for me is UCC is trying to justify it on the basis it is using non-taxpayers' revenue. Sorry, but that argument was rubbished at this committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: No-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: Basically, how can it justify this was exclusively non-taxpayers' revenue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Alan Kelly: For me, that is impossible, and I would like UCC to explain it. It should come out publicly and state that actually the taxpayers of Ireland are paying for the majority of this because that is the truth.