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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: What was the settlement about?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: How would that have occurred?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Are those who look after the accounts in the college qualified accountants?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Was it an oversight issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Therefore, they are all making errors.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The Health Service Executive and other universities are all making mistakes. If it was a private individual, he or she would be named in the newspapers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: We could do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Who was the internal auditor in this case? Is it the same as with the institutes of technology, which have a centralised system?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: What goes on in University College Dublin?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: It goes back to the point made by Deputy Collins. Are they trained at all? Most of the standard small businesses throughout the country would know their obligations in relation to VAT. It is only in the big area of transactions that it becomes technical and where these questions arise. One wonders whether one is included or excluded in terms of paying VAT. However, the university is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Would Mr. McCarthy have the inclination at any time to stray into the policy area and perhaps suggest to the college what it should be doing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Should we take it up with that Department in that case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Its representatives will be in next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: No. Is it not the HEA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: I could make an issue of this but will not delay the meeting. The college just continues doing what it wants to do. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is like a dog barking in the distance; it can be heard but, since it is so far away, it can be ignored in the belief it will go away. The threshold of €60,000 applies when it should be €25,000. Mr. McCarthy brings...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: As Deputy Nolan says, it is also an issue for the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills. We will have it before us again in December. Perhaps it is an issue for next Thursday and the following week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: I agree with Deputy O'Donovan. So as not to delay this meeting, perhaps we should agree first to send a transcript of the proceedings of this meeting and the various questions that have been asked to the president for his response. Then we can judge what we will do thereafter, or the best course of action to take. I invite Mr. McCarthy to comment on No. 4.3.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: I ask members to note all of these statements and accounts. We will move on to No. 5, which is our work programme. It is now on the screen. Next week, representatives from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will come before us. I will ask the clerk if it would be possible to give us a list of the various breaches of procurement by the different universities, institutes of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: At the hearing with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine we were promised that we would, within a week, have a written rebuttal of all the points and issues raised by members in the ten different cases we discussed. Despite of our giving the Department a reminder every single week since then, we have not received a reply as promised. As Deputy McDonald has now raised the matter...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: I think it was about two or three months ago. It was in July.