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- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: May I ask the Department of Justice and Equality about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: The question of why the meeting that Ms Kerins sought was not facilitated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: There was no dispute on the findings from the internal audit report between the Department of Justice and Equality and Rehab?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: Does Ms Kerins agree?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: I find it interesting because when one looks at the letter Rehab wrote to the Department of Justice and Equality on 23 August 2012, Ms Kerins makes that point very forcibly. It is a scheme of compensation that Rehab receives because competition in the market has been altered by Government legislation. However, when one looks at something like the document from the Department of Finance in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: They talk about its being provided in accordance with the terms of the scheme. In Ms Kerins's letter to the Department of Justice and Equality, she says there is not an Exchequer grant to organisations to provide services but according to the Department of Finance it is a grant scheme. Ms Kerins says it is not appropriate for the Department of Justice and Equality to seek to influence the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: It was not a completely free environment, however. I accept that it is a compensatory scheme, but it is a grant given by the Department with conditions. Does Ms Kerins accept that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: Too broad?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: According to the Department of Finance document from 2004 that Ms Kerins brought in to us, the conditions of the scheme stipulate that any funding provided under the scheme must be spent on the charitable activities of the organisation and cannot be used for administrative purposes. Ms Kerins said it was a very broad interpretation of the administrative purpose definition because it was not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: By the Department of Finance previously.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: Ms Kerins's view was that the money was being spent appropriately even within the terms of what constitutes administrative costs. The first time that was flagged with her was in the internal audit report in 2012 from the Department of Justice and Equality, following which she wrote back to that Department saying, in effect, "We have a different view of what you're saying, and we'd like to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: I want to go back to the Department of Justice and Equality on this point. Was it Mr. Purcell's view that because the scheme was being wound down it was pointless to complete the audit process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: Bills to the public are all made by the newsagents and 70% of the money used in the scheme, through sales, is administered by the newsagents in terms of the payouts to the low-end winners. Only 30% is coming back to Rehab. Let us consider it from a commercial point of view. If I supplied to a sports company T-shirts for €1 apiece and it sold them for €10 apiece, I would not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: When someone buys a scratch card in a newsagent, he is not giving any money to Rehab at all.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: It is tiny, a fraction of a fraction.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: Is there anything on the scratch card that states the destination of the money?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: The purpose of the scheme, as far as Rehab is concerned, is not to make money because it does not make money from it. The purpose of the scheme, as it sees it, is to get money from the Government.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: What if the cap is not lifted?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: I do not want to get into the dispute Mr. McGuire is having with the Department on the cap and its lifting. Would it be fair to say that if the cap is not lifted, Rehab will not be able to continue to run the scratch card scheme?