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Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that CIT has and is obliged to have procedures for protected disclosures. However, I am asking a slightly different question. We need to get to the bottom of why there is a repeat pattern in allegations. I have correspondence from this month. I had assumed that it had come to the committee, but it may only have come to me. Other members seem to have been in receipt of it as...

Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: In any event, we will not delve into the detail of it. I am not asking Dr. Murphy about the procedural issue; I am asking about the cultural issue. Are there individuals who feel alienated from management? Is there a bad atmosphere in the institute?

Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: What does that tell us?

Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: One could interpret it to mean there might be a lack of confidence in the procedure in place.

Public Accounts Committee: Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013
Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (10 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is certainly the case. Since the correspondence I have before me has been sent to Members of the Oireachtas, one could argue it is a protected disclosure in that respect. Indeed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is as it should be. As the Comptroller and Auditor General said, this appears to be the first part of a staged process in terms of dealing with the compliance issues that were raised.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Here is the difficulty with all of it. This is the first cut at dealing with the issues, which is welcome. During the process, it transpired that an auditor within the Central Bank had fallen foul of the process. Nobody disputes the fact that the person resisted removing, amending or omitting elements of his or her work from the report. Deloitte judged whether management was justified in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Perhaps you will give me a few minutes to brief the committee. I have already spoken to the Comptroller and Auditor General in respect of information that has been given to me from a former employee of the Central Bank. This employee was tasked with carrying out a review of the code of practice for the governance of State bodies. The Central Bank had been found not to be in compliance with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise something I should, perhaps, have raised under correspondence or the lack thereof, which is the case of Mr. Douglas Fannin. It is an issue we have discussed several times at the committee. Am I to take it from the absence of correspondence that we still have not had a response?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Department has really dragged its heels on this issue. If the Secretary General was away, so be it, but the matter has dragged on and on and now we are approaching the Christmas break. If we do not have word by lunchtime, we certainly should have the departmental delegates in next week.

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: It makes a very depressing vista, and who would have thought after all the tribunals, the political scandals and the exposure of the cynical and self-serving behaviour of a coterie of councillors, Deputies and even Ministers that we would find ourselves back where we started when it comes to unethical and corrupt behaviour by some politicians? Who would have thought the culture of the brown...

Estimates for Public Services 2015 (9 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have noticed in many of the Minister's public pronouncements of late that he attempts to make a virtue, as he sees it, of increased and ahead-of-profile tax returns while keeping a firm reign on public expenditure. The Minister paints this position as one that reflects prudence in his governance. Listening to him, one would never believe he was a Minister in a Government that had hacked...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a headstrong jigsaw site in the north inner city of Dublin following from a meeting held with an organisation (details supplied) in summer 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44352/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a person (details supplied) in County Dublin is losing an entitlement to a special needs assistant; if she will re-instate the person's special needs assistance hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44341/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 357. To ask the Minister for Health why the home care package hours of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 were not increased when the person moved into independent living accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43572/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction work will begin and be completed on a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43537/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the funding and building of St. Thomas's national school in Lucan, County Dublin, including the amount of funding allocated from the current capital programme, the stage that planning is at and when the works will be completed. [43753/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Fees (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a fee waiver for independently managed community education providers for Quality and Qualifications Ireland re-engagement. [43954/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Fees (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why organisations already accredited by the four bodies that are being amalgamated into Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, are being asked to apply for accreditation with QQI, thereby having to pay an additional fee, and if she will waive this fee. [43955/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why the resource hours of a person (details supplied) were withdrawn at the start of this school year and if these will be re-instated for the coming school year. [43957/15]