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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: Does the Department have any timeframe for when that will be paid off, or any anticipation of it being paid off?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: In terms of other overpayments, at year end, non-teacher retired personnel overpayments were €3.8 million regarding 3,905 cases. Again, there was a similar figure in 2014 when there was an overpayment of €3.3 million and 3,835 cases. I understand there are recovery plans in place for all these overpayments. In effect, is the Department saying there is nothing it can do to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: Recovery plans are in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: There is a variety of controls. That is great to hear. I might move on to something close to home for me, which is the Grangegorman development. It is one of the more exciting developments within the Department right now. It is under the auspices of the Grangegorman Development Agency, is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: What is the background to that agency and the purpose of establishing it, as opposed to having the matter directly under the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: How does that agency sit with the Department and then with DIT? What is its relationship?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: It is a separate legal entity entirely, then.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: Does the Department have any level of oversight over it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: It received €2.9 million in 2015 and €2.5 million in 2014. What is the anticipated relationship going forward? When Grangegorman is sufficiently developed, will it be shut down similar to Ballymun Regeneration Limited or is it envisioned that it will continue perpetually?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: Perhaps that question will be valid for a future Committee of Public Accounts. In terms of other capital expenditure and the disposal of capital assets, the Department transferred control of 15 schools, valued at €128 million, to school authorities in 2015. Will Mr. Ó Foghlú explain how that works to the committee? Does the Department still retain ownership, as distinct...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: In terms of the rare instances where the Department seeks repayment of money, am I correct in saying that it received payment for the 15 schools, control of which it transferred? Is that correct or am I misreading that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: Mr. Ó Foghlú might provide the committee with that subsequently if he does not mind.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: I appreciate that. As far as I understand, the range of valuations in any event was between €2 million and €22 million. How are these valued? I imagine it is quite hard to put a valuation on them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: That is logical. I might move on to something that is a topic of interest for me in particular, if the committee will indulge me. In 2015 the Irish Research Council, IRC, had a little under €2.7 million in respect of grants that remained, in effect, unspent. How did this come about?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: Absolutely. Mr. Ó Foghlú should feel free to have his colleagues chime in.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: For the sake of full context, one of the major universities, Dublin City University, is right at the heart of my constituency. Doctoral students and postgraduate students are a large group of my constituents, so I often interact with them around these grants. They are a tremendous support but I am curious about the future plans for, and the current execution of, them. Are there any plans...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: From the IRC, not from the university itself.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: We will not delve into it too much. It is perhaps another issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: Absolutely. I might do that if Mr. Ó Foghlú does not mind. To zoom out, in terms of higher education grants in general, I noted from the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on this that the original Vote provided for student support grants of €332 million which is down about €40 million, or 11% from 2014. What contributes to this? Are demographic factors...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Noel Rock: Naturally. In terms of SUSI-----