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- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: We know all that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: I just want Mr. Owens to answer one question, which he has more or less done. They have not changed that much.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: The ones we are talking about have not changed that much. Let us cut to the chase.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: That is right. Let us not bluff the people who are listening in to us. It has not changed. Mr. Owens has not ever referred to the past. Let us see what happened in the past. What was happening on the audit committees during the years when all of this was going on? Who were the members of the audit committee? Was there an accountant on the audit committee? Had it access to proper human...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Was there an accountant on the audit committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Let us be straight. There was no accountant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Did the individuals who served on the audit committees understand their responsibilities in terms of audit, human resource issues that might have arisen and responsibility to the Committee of Public Accounts? Have they any understanding that it was not just their domain and that it was actually taxpayers' money for which they were accountable up the chain?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: I am only interested in Cork here and now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: I am not asking what you would have done. I am asking what was done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: That is a little bit too late, Mr. Owens. It is not the fact that a new ETB was put in place. It is the fact that the old VEC allowed this to go on. That is what is at issue in this report. Mr. Ó Foghlú was not in the Department at the time, but perhaps he can tell us what the role of the audit committee or the VEC was? Where did they report to?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: When did the internal VSSU audit unit have full knowledge of the range of problems they faced as things went wrong down there in terms of staff, leases and all the other things outlined in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Mr. Owens, what was your engagement with the VSSU?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Were all these issues reported to the chairperson of the audit committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Were all these issues reported to the chairperson of the audit committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Were all these issues that we are discussing today, ranging from the leases to staff, etc., reported to the audit committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Who was the CEO?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: He was suspicious about it or heard about it and conducted the audit. He received the report. Was that report then brought to the audit committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: So they were all informed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: Was the Department of Education and Skills informed?