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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Is there a forum in which the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General can report back to the Government about areas it cannot touch? Perhaps there is a sense of David versus Goliath. Is there a method by which the office can tell the Government that there is a certain body of work that could be done but that it cannot be done because of a lack of resources?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Many organisations look for extra staff. Is a special case made on the basis that extra staff are required to work on special reports, which are very helpful to us in doing our work, or does the office make a general case for more staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Issues were raised recently by the Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board on shared services. It was said that audit delays are sometimes caused by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Perhaps I misinterpreted the opening statement. Does the office cause delays sometimes? Is it part of the problem on occasion when financial reports are delayed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Is the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General part of the reason for delay? We are very hard on organisations and bodies that come before us with late reports. Is the office part of that delay sometimes, in a small way?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: When we are being extremely harsh on organisations is it the case that it is sometimes not entirely their fault? Does the office cause delays?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: There is a charge incurred every time the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General carries out an audit. Does everyone pay? I notice that the fees received are down between 2016 and 2017.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Page 14 deals with receipts. In 2016, slightly more than €6.112 million was realised. In 2017, it went a bit over what was estimated but less than what was received than in 2016. What is the reason for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Clearing audit arrears.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: It was a practical decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: That is what I was going to ask. They are prompt payments.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: On consultancy services and value for money, the estimate provision was €350,000 and the outturn was €59,000. I refer to page 13. There is a big difference between the estimated and actual provision detailed on page 13 for consultancy services and value for money policy reviews. I ask Ms Drinan to clarify that issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: It relates to getting in staff to do the work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: It is there if it is needed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Perhaps staff days would be a more appropriate phrase.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Straight from the votes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Professor Fitzpatrick for attending. I read his letter asking to come in and it encouraged me to invite him. He has made a number of comments, apart from rediscovering the vision. He said mistakes were made and it is certainly not the best site. Even if we park that, the most important issue is to look at the site to see a maternity hospital can be built. That is fundamental to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Professor Fitzpatrick mentioned the St. James's site and the building of a cancer centre or hospital.
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Professor Fitzpatrick might be a very brave man to talk about figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I apologise in advance as I will have to go as well. I thank the professor for coming in. Where did this go off the tracks? How are we now in a position where Professor Fitzpatrick is before the Committee of Public Accounts on a Thursday afternoon? I am not quite sure this is the correct committee but I am delighted he is here. Trilocation was the key vision for this site from day one....
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: There were all those practical difficulties but if trilocation was essential for the three hospitals, how did this happen? Let us leave the planning difficulties aside. The issue of a maternity hospital went off the radar completely.