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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: Is that a box-ticking type of approach to compliance? A statutory review means just that. A review of sorts is not a statutory review. Did the Department not insist on the Department from which the function was being transferred carrying out the review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: It is striking that most of the years in question - from 2012 to 2016 - were among the tightest the country had experienced money-wise. Some of the groups identified as disadvantaged would have been doubly disadvantaged by virtue of the significant cutbacks introduced in those years and the money from the Dormant Accounts Fund became all the more important as a consequence. I find it very...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: There is some navel-gazing going on, given the timelines we are talking about here. I refer to one in particular, where a programme seems to have been replaced. The area-based childhood, ABC, programme was abandoned, and then a new programme was initiated. There is obviously a very significant underspend on that particular scheme. For example, matching funds were supposed to be...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: I ask all of the witnesses to be very concise in their replies, because we have quite limited time. I would like to hear more on that particular programme from Mr. Rowley.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: No money was lost from Atlantic Philanthropies' contribution, then?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise the issue of Pobal. What is the cost of administration, compared to the funds for which Pobal is responsible? Perhaps a witness could describe that body's role to me, and outline the ratio of operating expenses to the amount Pobal administers?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: When somebody makes an application for these funds, how project-ready do they have to be before they make it through the process? If there are time lags, that may well be a reason. Has any review shown up anything hinting at deficiencies in spending money on very worthwhile projects?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: It is difficult not to feel that this is a scheme that no Department really wanted. It has been transferred a few times. If one applied to a Department for funding for a road or a school, one has to go through a process before the project makes it into a budget for the year. This does not appear to meet that criterion. It is very loose, and yet, it is not as if there is a lack of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: Presumably, the expectation would be that the money would be used within, say, the three-year window.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: What changes would Mr. McCarthy propose that would make the scheme more flexible and yet allow the money to be spent appropriately?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: How many people does the Department have dedicated to monitoring and reviewing this? How is it being reviewed? Is it being reviewed within the Department? Can Mr. McCarthy talk me through that very briefly?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: What kind of time and what kind of numbers of people are going to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: I refer to people dedicated to this.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: It is a matter of the outcomes, really. If the work is going to be almost exclusively on, for example, carrying out the review, as opposed to ensuring that the projects are up and running and the money is appropriately spent, to what does the Department give priority?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: I want to go through one or two items to flesh the matter out a little. In the Department of Justice and Equality the largest underspend occurred in 2015 on the Garda youth diversion project, which is a very worthwhile programme within the Garda. For this project there was an allocation of just under €500 million - sorry, it was €500,000. I wish it were €500 million....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: Yes, please do.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: The Department got the money and then had the dialogue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Ó Briain have a piece of advice as to how this should change?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: Is the underspend addressed now-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Ó Briain think that will be fully spent?