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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: Would that report cover legal fees, etc.?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: I have a general question relative to that. I would have believed, given that there is a special section in the Department overseeing the VECs and institutes, that an audit committee, board or oversight committee would be reporting odd things to the Department. Is that not the case? Do the officials not regard it as part of their duty and good governance to report something that arises...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: Would Mr. Ó Foghlú have had many negative findings from the reports or audits reported to him over the years that would have raised alarm bells as to how the whole sector was being managed and staffed? Deputy O'Donnell raised the issue of one particular VEC and the letter that the Department was discussing with him. However, other issues arose — in regard to Wexford VEC,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: I refer to the big decisions, the ones that are a source of contention, be they associated with legal fees, accountancy fees or other big issues concerning the human resources problem. These are the types of issues I would have believed would have been made known to the Department so action could be taken. I ask these questions because of the volume of letters on the various issues...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: There are major issues in that regard that have to be dealt with. I will not go into them because we have to wait to see what the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report will tell us about some of them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: How are the institutes of technology managed in the context of oversight?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: Is there a special section in the Department that oversees the VEC sector, or did in the past?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: Would that have been there over all of the years of the existence of VECs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: How does it function in terms of the accounts and governance of the VECs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: Looking back over the years starting with this year, would the Secretary General say that the internal audits in the Department have been effective?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: I refer to the Department's oversight of those VECs. The Department has an oversight of each VEC. I suppose I am asking how detailed is that oversight. What does it go into? Does it look at the accounts? Does it look at the governing body, committee or whatever it might be described as?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: To the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: In terms of the Cork VEC, because we have a number of pieces of correspondence, did the Secretary General ever examine the membership of the Cork VEC?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: Over the years, once it was in line with what was set out, could the members of the VEC have been there for years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: Would it be uncommon for, and would there be anything unusual about, someone serving on a board for 21 years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: Is it the case, for instance, that board members of Cork VEC be members of Cork Institute of Technology?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: I refer to the general membership, not only local authority members.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: Has the Secretary General ever examined specifically the Cork VEC and the Cork Institute of Technology, CIT?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: Would it worry the Secretary General in this case that a considerable number were members of both organisations? That would not be good governance, would it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012 (15 May 2014)

John McGuinness: From accounts that the Department would receive, perhaps the Comptroller and Auditor General could clarify this, who can tell or comment on, for example, the number of board meetings in Cork VEC or CIT that were attended by the members, how much expenses did each one get, whether there is an overlap in terms of being a member of one and being a member of another, and the expenses attached to...