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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I ask in terms of timing and other members.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I understand that and I am fully aware of that, but some people who were not lead questioners had almost 30 minutes so I feel that I am against the clock.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I know what I have.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I understand all that. The third speaker is my issue. I thank the officials for attending this morning. I want to go back to the assets issue that has been raised several times, including tagging items and putting them on the register. Up to 2017, when a microscope, bailer or testing kit was purchased with Department money, no one put a sticker with a reference number on the item and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: What was the Department doing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: If someone put in a request to buy a bailer, for example, the Department's control of that situation ended. Is that accurate? The Department gave it to the person in agriculture college who needed it and that was the last the Department saw of it in terms of registering it on paper. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: It does not really matter. Mr. Gleeson referred to motor vehicles. Are we talking about tractors, motor vehicles, telephones and computers? Are we talking about every asset?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: There was no formal procedure before 2017 for tagging and registering post-procurement. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: It did not work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is that not an astounding lack of governance on the part of the Department? It is a vast amount of money.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: There is a figure of almost €12 million in assets. That is such a vast amount to fall under office equipment and other machinery. I understand it is different from most offices, but it is an astounding amount of money over which the Department had no governance. Is a figure lodged on the balance sheet when the Department buys a new piece of equipment? I assume in the agricultural...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I am referring to assets that have been disposed of.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: They are noted as a sale. They were sales pertaining to old equipment that has been replaced. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Great, it has not all fallen off.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: A figure of €81,000 is entered for selling bits and bobs.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is for a one-year period.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: The Department is doing well with this list of assets. The Department is making good headway in response to what was raised. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: How does the Department know it is making good headway if it has no idea how many assets there are? If the Department does not know what is there, how does it know whether it is 20% through or 60% through the spreadsheet? Is this simply a feeling?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: If the Department does not know the global figure in Ireland, then how does it know how far it is into registering the assets?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is everything on that register now?