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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: 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?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: What year was that, Mr. Owens?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: In the run-up to 2011, the audit was being done, a report was being compiled and the Department was 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: It was August 2010. The report was issued by the CEO of the VEC. It took until June 2011 for the VSSU to provide a copy of the report to the chairperson of the audit committee. Then the Department was involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: How many years did this go on for before the audit was requested in 2010, when the VSSU completed its report? Some of this dates back to 2003 and 2004.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: How did all of that happen? There were obviously no checks and balances. Would you agree?
- 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 look at what happened when there were not sufficient checks and balances. The different issues you had with staff are referred to in the opening comments in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. They state that between 2010 and 2013, legal settlements amounting to €111,600 were made by the VEC from its own funds. What sort of own funds did the VEC have?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: This would have been taken from taxpayers' money from the Department of Education and Skills, given to the VEC and used to settle claims or make legal settlements.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: If you were paying that towards legal settlements something was suffering. Someone was not getting the money. The money was not paid to you to make legal settlements. What was suffering?
- 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 schools and centres did not get what they should have got. Did the legal settlements follow protracted legal challenges by staff? What were they about?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: No, no, no. Some €111,600 in settlements was paid out by the VEC from its own funds.