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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I will get to the concerns unit. How many complaints were made? Ms Martin gave us figures from 2018 where there were 686 concerns. What would these concerns have centred on? Where would they have come from generally? Would it have been from staff within the organisations, or service users or members of the public?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: Or statutory bodies? Where would they come from?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: Of the concerns raised, how many times did any State body, be it the HSE or any other body, raise a concern with the regulator through formal processes? That is separate from people who work in the organisation or members of the public.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: Surely the regulator has a breakdown of the 686 concerns.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: That is the point. Surely there is an obligation. Take the HSE for example. Some of these are section 39 organisations which have service level agreements to provide certain services. Separately from that, if a charity was not such an organisation, it would be a charity that would be audited independently and an external audit would have to be done. There is, however, an element of an...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I am looking for a breakdown of that. Will Ms Martin write to the committee to outline a full breakdown of the source of the 686 concerns raised in 2018 and the State bodies involved? There is a lot of work to be done.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I wish to make one final point on university foundations. There seems to be an issue. While we get the accounts from universities, the Comptroller and Auditor General audits the money that comes from the voted expenditure but not the money that comes into the foundation accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: It can follow the money. When money that is in the account and not transferred over, the Comptroller and Auditor General cannot.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: Which is good.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: Are they not charitable foundations?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: Are they outside of the regulator's remit?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I want to start with some of the facts presented in Comptroller and Auditor General's special chapter and in his opening statement. On the non-ETS targets, he stated,“On the basis of projections that Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions for the period 2008 to 2012 would exceed the level committed to under the Kyoto Protocol". That happened but, as he also stated: "Ultimately,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: In other words, the crash saved our bacon or our blushes? Would that be the case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: An interpretation that could be seen as fair.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: When we consider energy targets in terms of renewable energy, there was a mandatory target for at least 16% of gross final energy consumption to come from renewable resources. We will not meet that target. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: Yes. That will cost the State €110 million. Will the Comptroller and Auditor General remind us how it will cost us €110 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: It is a target we will not meet and it will cost us money.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: That will have to be worked out. We will figure it out in 2020. It appears that we will not meet the 20% energy efficiency in respect of the 2020 target and that the actual figure will be in the region of 16%. Those are the figures in the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report, the global figures under the Paris Agreement and the targets we have to meet by 2030. We had...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: There is a new climate action plan in place but before it came into being, the reality, as per the facts presented by the Comptroller and Auditor General, is that the State is failing to meet all the targets set out in his report. Unless drastic changes occur as a consequence of implementing the climate action plan, and we do not know what that will mean, the assumption from representatives...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: That may or may not be the case. This committee carries out look-back exercises in respect of previous year, two years, three years or five years. Today, we can benchmark Mr. Carroll's Department and the State against targets they set themselves five years, ten years or two years ago. Leaving aside what might happen in the future, I accept that there is a new climate action plan and that...