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

Shane Ross: Of course, but some other external consultants could have obtained that information.

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

Shane Ross: What fees was Deloitte earning at the time?

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

Shane Ross: The document I have in front of me is headed "Expenditure Incurred by the Office of the President". It strikes me that Deloitte, because it was not independent, should not have been tasked with producing that report.

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

Shane Ross: I am interested in Professor Donnelly's view on it. Would he task an internal auditor with making a report on internal matters in which it would already have been involved?

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

Shane Ross: I thank Deputy McDonald for raising the issue. I do not know if we are being told it is outside our remit, which we are used to hearing about anything that is particularly awkward. The Central Bank has had a series of problems with whistleblowers, which the committee is familiar with. Some years ago, it suppressed information that Eugene McErlean brought to it. More recently, a...

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

Shane Ross: With the Central Bank, one constantly hits a brick wall. While we can understand the commercial sensitivities, there is a culture of secrecy. We can never get to the bottom of the procedures or how they follow them up.

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

Shane Ross: Chairman, are we still dealing with the work programme?

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

Shane Ross: Can we finish that first?

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

Shane Ross: What is the private meeting on 21 January 2016 about?

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

Shane Ross: Yes, there is no reason not to. What are we working on?

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

Shane Ross: How long is it since we have spoken with representatives of the Revenue Commissioners?

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

Shane Ross: I would like them to be invited, if that is possible.

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

Shane Ross: Is the Dáil resuming the week before that?

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

Shane Ross: Presumably, we should not assume the Dáil is either resuming or not resuming.

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

Shane Ross: Presumably, we should schedule a meeting for 14 January.

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

Shane Ross: Can we schedule to sit on both weeks?

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

Shane Ross: Thank you.

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

Shane Ross: I cannot think of anything else.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (10 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a student grant by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be expedited; the reason for the delay; if Student Universal Support Ireland is aware that this student will be in danger of being forced to drop out of college if the grant is not urgently approved and paid out; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: White Paper on Energy Policy (10 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: 224. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will publish the energy policy White Paper, if it deals with micro-generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44487/15]