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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: Starting in 2010. The VEC had settlements of €500, €14,800, €3,000 and €93,000 in 2013 and the legal costs-----
- 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 €178,000 in 2010.
- 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 was that for?
- 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 was €178,000 in one year, and then in 2011 it was €49,700, in 2012 it was €156,200, and in 2013 it was €58,000.
- 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 do not want to get lost in statistics. Stick to the staff issues. Part of the €178,000 relates to staff issues.
- 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 out of the VEC's own funds and it was for legal costs.
- 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 were the settlements in that regard?
- 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 in 2010.
- 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 asking about 2010. The €178,300 in legal costs must have related to a number of cases.
- 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 were the other legal costs? Half of that legal cost related to staffing issues.
- 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 that just advice that the VEC got?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: My point is that if the VEC was paying the best part of €90,000 of that €178,000 for legal costs, was there a settlement alongside that? The VEC was paying for legal advice. Was it only getting legal advice, or was there a particular court case or cases in train? Were there out-of-court settlements with individuals?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: They amount to €500.
- 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 were the settlements made and how much of a settlement was made as the VEC went along? If it was paying that, the total settlement in 2010 was €500, the next year it was €14,800, in 2012 it was €3,000 and in 2013 it was €93,000. Was the €93,000 in 2013 a single settlement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: One individual.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 89
Internal Control in County Cork Vocational Education Committee (9 Jul 2015) John McGuinness: To one person.
- 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 VEC could not see 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: Fair play to Mr. Owens. The ones who were there before him obviously did not see it. They ran up massive legal costs and in the end they paid the individual concerned €93,300.
- 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 not Mr. Owens who paid. It was the Irish people.
- 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 saw the sense of it. It states in the code of practice from the Department of Finance that "where a legal dispute involving the institute arises, every effort should be made to mediate, arbitrate or otherwise before expensive legal costs are incurred". That principle was completely ignored.