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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Did we deal------
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It got away from us. That is the 2016------
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will note the clear audit opinion that is laid before the Oireachtas. The next item is the Legal Aid Board. There is a clear audit opinion but the board incurred material expenditure where the relevant goods and services were not procured by way of competitive process. Here we go again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The version laid before the Oireachtas is not the version that the Comptroller and Auditor General certified.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Was it an earlier draft that was submitted or did-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: This raises an issue. When the Comptroller and Auditor General conducts an audit, he gives the body a certificate, but it is up to the body to print the report using his information. Sometimes,-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----something incorrect appears in what is published even though the Comptroller and Auditor General did not sign off on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Given that the Comptroller and Auditor General became aware of this, can we ask him to come back to the committee? Normally we would write to the board directly but because you have spotted this issue in respect of the board, you might follow up on it and come back to us. Or will they have to lay a fresh set of accounts before the Oireachtas?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Should we write directly or should we ask you to follow up on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Were they aware of this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to this. We are holding over the financial statement of accounts received from the Legal Aid Board and we are not in a position to note them. I will ask for this item to be included on next week's agenda.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next items are 4.5, Inland Fisheries Ireland, clear audit opinion, and 4.6, University College Cork, qualified audit opinion in relation to recognition by the university of expected future funding of €15.7 million in respect of certain pension added year commitments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is a pensions issue involving deferred pension funding. This is all about the deferred pension funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Their total funding is made up of State funding and their own funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have not done that yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: A couple of weeks ago I asked the Comptroller and Auditor General to go through the last set of audit accounts to produce the total list of procurements carried out not in accordance with the guidelines. I know it is a big task.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is going to bowl us over when we get it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We asked this two or three weeks ago. It is a big ask but it will enlighten everybody starting with us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can. Has Mr. McCarthy's office a record of why from the audit?