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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (3 Feb 2015)

John Deasy: 629. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of heavy goods vehicle and non-heavy goods vehicle traffic in respect of each of the following toll roads for the years 2010-2014 inclusive: M50 barrier-free-toll, M1 Gormanston - Monasterboice, M3 Clonee - Kells, M4 Kilcock - Enfield - Kinnegad, M7 - M8 Portlaoise - Castletown-Portlaoise - Cullahill, N6...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: There are many vacant properties and much unused infrastructure in harbours and fishery ports around the country. Everybody involved in fisheries knows that many fish factories and buildings that were used in the fisheries industry have become vacant. What is the point of the exercise? What is Mr. Gillen asking? I agree with him, but it is an obvious issue that does not affect Howth only.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: I, too, would like to go. Would it not be better to try to get an inventory showing exactly what the Department owns around the country on the State books in order that we would know what we were dealing with?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: If we find there is a large number, any meeting we might have in Howth would be far more relevant.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Where do oversight and audit start and finish in City of Dublin VEC? What steps need to be taken in any regular audit or accounting of what a VEC does and where it dispenses money? Does it deal with these matters internally and does this subsequently work its way up to the Department of Education and Skills? How does the system work and how should it work?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Yes. How did this issue get so badly out of control?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: That was after the fact.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: The education and training board had its own internal auditors who waited for the Department of Social Protection to provide a data set. How did the disbursement of this money go so badly wrong when clear rules apply to students who are in receipt of the back to education allowance in receiving a maintenance grant?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Overlooked is a-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: We all deal with people who receive payments from the Department of Social Protection, including some who are liberal with the truth when it comes to payments. That is fine because we usually sort out these things with the Department and the individuals in question. However, the rate of overpayment is high.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: It was €4 million altogether.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: What happens now with regard to the moneys that were given out erroneously? In some cases incorrect information was supplied. What are the consequences?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: In the normal course of what I do every day, I deal with many people on issues with the Department of Social Protection. It is par for the course that somebody who is overpaid will be asked to pay the money back. One would expect that to be the case in this situation also.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Is there an explanation for that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: The non-effective expenditure of €500,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Was any reason given?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: There is a difficulty because an investigation is ongoing. How many artefacts have been recovered so far?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: To return to the point raised by Deputy O'Donovan about the missing artefacts, I am looking at the December 2012 internal financial control statement from the National Library. It says that a significant amount of material was recovered. I do not know whether it came about because of the systems and controls mentioned by Ms O'Flaherty.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Ms Fahy is being guarded and that is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

John Deasy: Does Deputy Ross mind if I ask a question now that Deputy Perry has raised the issue of the 1916 commemoration?