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- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: If he is an independent investigator, why would he advise someone he is investigating about whom he or she should speak to? What is the Department's view on an independent investigator telling people what they should or should not say if asked a question? I am asking about Dr. Thorn. The committee received a letter from Mr. Ó Foghlú today. It states:Given that the investigation...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Who initiated the conversation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Did he indicate that he was going to communicate with anyone else? There is an independent investigation. I would have thought he would be getting on with his job rather than tic-tacking with Mr. Loftus or anyone else.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: If Deputy McDonald will allow, I will pursue this matter. The investigation is well under way. Dr. Thorn spoke to Mr. Ashe as well. Was it by means of a letter or a phone call?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Given the seriousness everybody has attached to the statutory investigation that is under way, it can be seen why I am already concerned if there are phone calls here and there from the investigator, tic-tacking, phone calls going unrecorded and communications with people under investigation and with individuals in the Department. There is nothing in writing. There is no record. We will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will finish the question. We are here every week. The Charleton inquiry is ongoing and there is an investigation into the Grace case, which is another issue that has come before the committee. If we heard that Mr. Justice Charleton was making phone calls to potential witnesses and people who could potentially be investigated, that there was no record of such calls and that he was telling...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Did Dr. Thorn phone the Comptroller and Auditor General in this regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. We will return to Deputy McDonald. I hope the Deputy understands my intervention.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is posing a question. She is not making a conclusion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is posing a question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy, to be fair Mr. Ashe's relation is not here now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The witness will have retired by then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: From retirement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Has the witness got that advice in writing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have two quick questions for two people here. Has Dr. Thorn put this in writing to anybody?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I want to ask the Comptroller and Auditor General a question on the terms of reference. In the course of the audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of the Kildare and Wicklow ETB's financial statement 2015, which is ongoing, the Comptroller brought a number of issues to the attention of the Department of Education and Skills. Perhaps he could explain it to me. When the Comptroller...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is not in dispute. The question is that the Comptroller and Auditor General was conducting an audit of the Kildare and Wicklow ETB and he chose to go outside of that relationship to a third party, the Department of Education and Skills, in relation to an audit that was ongoing. That is my question. I know the Department has a right, but is it normal when conducting an audit of an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: SOLAS is a significant funder of the ETB. We discussed that this morning. In the latest year for which information is available, SOLAS gave €26 million. It is a significant funder of the ETB so why did the Comptroller and Auditor General not go to SOLAS as a funder if he went to the Department as a funder? I am seeking to understand how it was initiated. Mr. Ruttle said he wrote...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General has indicated that he wrote to Mr. Ruttle on this issue. Can he elaborate on that?