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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: They are here today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The HSE and the State Claims Agency will appear before us to deal with CervicalCheck.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: He will be here shortly so we can raise that issue very soon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Do we have a reply from NAMA? We will follow it up. We have not seen the reply. Our first letter to it asked questions and we had to write a second letter to it about Project Nantes. That only went out when we-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: That was the second letter we sent out so we will follow that up. The next items concerns statements and accounts received since our meeting last week. There are three such accounts and statements. The list is being put on the board. One is the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board. There is a clear audit opinion. Attention is drawn to a material level of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat to circulate the statement. If anybody wants to follow it up in detail next week, we will do so. There is no point in writing to it for information if it is already in its annual report, which is available to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: People can read the full details of that in the annual report and financial statement, which is available. I will ask the secretariat to send an email.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I do not know. As a result of our work here, some extra resources were given for the finance function for various education and training boards, ETBs. That is really as a result of our work in the past 18 months in the sector. Additional staff have been appointed to the finance sections in each of the department to try to deal with the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is the centralised function.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We know each education and training board has an internal audit committee but the question is how many of them have had the resources to carry out some internal audit work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The unit might be in Cavan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is the internal audit function on a shared basis for all the education and training boards. I suspect some education and training boards have had no internal audit work carried out-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We need to write to the Department to ask for the number of internal audit programmes or work carried out for each of the education and training boards. We can then see where are the gaps. We need to get that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: In the Department there is a lack of adequate resourcing for the internal audit function nationwide.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Department about a full assessment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is a centralised unit. We need to know the number of staff and how many internal audits have been carried out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the Department to give us a full breakdown on the internal audit function and staffing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are getting there eventually. We should have tripped over this before now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We must accept the Department of Education and Skills was very poor in not getting timely financial statements from education and training boards in the first place. It will say this always happens in the merging of organisations and there is always a couple of years of build-up. However, that excuse is now well worn, to be honest. We have been on the case to get the accounts done and that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.