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- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Is it the case that Mr. McCarthy had to go above-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: -----the CEO? Okay. I imagine that took Mr. McCarthy to the board. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: The chair of the board was approached?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Were any of them aware of any of the concerns or issues that Mr. McCarthy had?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: A significant surprise?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: They were a surprise to the chair, the vice chair and the head of the audit committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: No, but they were surprised?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: How could they be surprised and shocked if some of these issues overlapped with issues of procurement that happened in 2010? That brings me to Mr. Merrick who sat on the finance committee for a time. The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General contacted the chair of board. Mr. Merrick said he first became aware of this in July or August 2017 and all of this was a surprise. How was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Who signs off on the spending on credit cards, booking hotels and subsistence? Who has oversight of spending in those areas?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Would the finance committee have any role in any of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Why not? What does the finance committee do?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Who signs off on spending? We heard of meetings in the K Club and concerns were raised in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. There were issues about the incurring of significant expenditure with certain hotels without a competitive procurement process. There were subsistence claims by the then chief executive that did not comply with regulations. Who signed off on those claims...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Who would have oversight?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: The chief executive officer signs off on his or her own spending?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Did Mr. O'Toole not hear the two points I raised earlier? The Kildare-Wicklow ETB incurred significant expenditure with certain hotels without a competitive procurement process and subsistence claims by the then chief executive did not comply with regulations. If that was the case and there were issues about a chief executive's spending, there has to be somebody other than the chief...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: I am looking at Mr. McCarthy's supplementary report which shows there are governance and financial control weaknesses that were uncovered by his work. Almost none of those issues were uncovered by either the finance committee, the audit committee or the board. Is that fair?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: That brings me to the role and responsibility of the board and the CEO and how ETBs are governed. We talked about how unusual it is to have two supplementary reports. We also have the Thorn report and a Garda investigation and the committee has examined the matter. All of these issues are highly unusual when one considers the totality of all of that. It is the Education and Training Boards...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Is Mr. Merrick the current chair of the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Has Mr. Merrick read the Act?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Is Mr. Merrick familiar with all of the provisions?