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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: How the money is allocated and the financial controls that are in place are within the remit of the committee. Why the money is spent is a matter for the Áras.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: No, I refer to scrutiny.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: In terms of an accountability chart, Mr. Fraser is the Accounting Officer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: The money is then allocated to the Áras. There is then the management in the Áras and now an audit committee in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: Questions have been raised about the true costs because there are several costs associated with running the Áras which are outside of the €3.9 million gross and the €3.8 million net that are in the President's Establishment account for 2016. On page 6 it is detailed that they relate to: salaries, wages and allowances; travel and subsistence; training and development; and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: No, sorry, that is the wrong page. It is detailed on the following page. Those costs relate to the office of the Minister for Finance; superannuation and retired allowances; the Office of Public Works, which I presume relates to the upkeep of the Áras itself; the Garda Síochána; foreign affairs; and defence. The latter three are obviously expenses incurred in the context of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: It is not hidden.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: The full costs are there. All of the additional costs, whether relating to the Garda Síochána, defence, foreign affairs or other matters, are there for us to see.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: Is Mr. Fraser the Accounting Officer for all of that spend or just the €3.8 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: Is Mr. Fraser the Accounting Officer for the allocation to the Office of Public Works, which accounted for €2.4 million in 2016?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: My point is that there are multiple Accounting Officers responsible for the spend of the Presidency in its entirety. Mr. Fraser is responsible for a portion of it but not all of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: But that Vote is for a certain element of the overall cost-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: -----which is less than half.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: There are other Accounting Officers-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: There are seven others. That is interesting. I understand the constitutional position, but with regard to scrutiny or accountability of the spend, there is a block, or certainly a practice, that Mr. Fraser does not respond to freedom of information, FOI, requests from people outside the Oireachtas. In the letter that Mr. Fraser sent to this committee he quite rightly pointed out that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: I know it is, but is that the law because politicians, in their wisdom, felt it should be done or is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: I did not finish the question. Is there a constitutional impediment to the Áras being subject to FOI?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: To be fair to Mr. Fraser, he might not be able to answer this, but was advice received from the Attorney General at the time the Act was brought in and when the policy decision was made that the Office of the President should not be subject to FOI? Obviously there was some wisdom there and Mr. Fraser has given us some insight into why it was the case.