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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: In order to help the Department of Education and Skills, to help us on this committee, and to help the cause of public accountability I ask that Mr. Ó Foghlú, as Secretary General, write directly to the chairman and CEO of each ETB and remind them of their statutory duty to submit their accounts to the Comptroller and Auditor General by 1 April 2018. If they are not in by then we...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Are there any requests currently on Mr. Loftus's desk that directly relate to unfilled vacancies in areas that might have an impact on the 2017 accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. Loftus has raised a very important point here. Voting has started; I will continue here and Deputy Kelly will be back after the break. Or would he rather stay? It is up to him.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Okay. I will just finish this one point. I have three or four more points to make before I let Deputy Kelly in with his question for Mr. O'Toole. Mr. Loftus has given an answer that is not acceptable to the Committee of Public Accounts. The question I put to Mr. Loftus and indeed to the Secretary General concerned requests received by the Department for staff to deal with this issue, and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Please do.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: So Mr. Loftus has got the message?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I will just make a broad comment. The Committee of Public Accounts, along with the entire public of the Republic of Ireland, are sick and tired of the lack of accountability in the public service. We see it in finance; banks; the HSE; the ETBs; and in education. The Committee of Public Accounts no longer has any latitude in these matters. If a body is obliged to meet a statutory...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We will be producing a report on this sector. I have two final questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Yes. We will start with the education and training boards, ETBs, but the Deputy will get to ask his questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We will continue for a final few minutes before we formally suspend for lunch. During the first 20 minutes this morning, we heard a breakdown of the payments to the ETB sector. Will the witnesses, in the calm light of day, put that on paper and come back to the committee tomorrow or the next day? We were all scribbling notes but we need to receive that formally next week. It will probably...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: It is a joint meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: My question was not about SOLAS at all.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Some €538 million goes from SOLAS to the ETBs and they follow that money as I have just described. My question is on the €816 million which the Department pays directly to the ETBs. Does the Department carry out a similar exercise during the year for its €816 million as SOLAS does for its €538 million? That is my question. Is the same procedure in place? If I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: On building projects and so on. That is very important.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I have one last question for SOLAS. Rather than doing it off the top of his head, I ask Mr. O'Toole to send us a note on the status of the funding for the new ETB second level school in Portlaoise regarding site identification. The new Dunamase school has opened on a temporary site. I ask Mr. O'Toole to send an update in writing to the committee on the status of that next week. Pages 70...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: The Youthreach figure for Louth and Meath is €5 million whereas the Youthreach figure for the city of Dublin is only €9 million. Obviously, many other programmes are going on in Dublin, but there is no logic to it. It is historical.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Surely SOLAS is beginning to take a strategic look at it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: It goes without saying that people will want youth centres, but none of the old ones to close. Mr. O'Toole will know that before we start. I thank him for that because I wanted to highlight that issue. We will suspend for the voting block in the Dáil and lunch and we will resume again at 2.30 p.m. with the City of Dublin ETB, and Kilkenny and Carlow ETB. The Secretary General of...
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will continue our discussion about the consideration of the financial statements relating to the education and training board sector. In this session we are joined by the City of Dublin ETB and Kilkenny and Carlow ETB to discuss their 2015 and 2016 financial statements, respectively. I welcome from the City of Dublin ETB Paddy Bourke, chairperson, Carol Hanney, chief executive, Aideen...
- Public Accounts Committee: City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----to the Secretary General and then we will move on to the opening statements of the next witnesses. We will finish off one item.