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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)

Catherine Murphy: Were the items concerning procurement not very specifically put on a risk register? The letter we have from the Department states that the Department would continue to insist on adherence to proper procurement practices in VECs and to remind VECs of their obligations in that regard.

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Was there particular attention given that there had been an issue in Kildare? Was there particular attention to not letting this happen again? Did that arise? Was there a discussion of this?

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Was there any dialogue between the Department and the KWETB? This particular report had been produced so one would have expected that the Department would have had a particular concern to make sure it did not happen again. Parallel with the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General, a targeted internal audit was conducted on key areas of our operations. Those audits went through 2013,...

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What lessons were learned from this process conducted in 2010 that was bought into the KWETB? Was there a learning process on procurement, for example?

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: We understand the property issue. I remind Mr. Ashe that €1.9 million was spent on ICT and there were five transactions over €50,000. One purchase did not evidence tendering. There were 17 transactions of between €5,000 and €50,000. Five purchases did not have evidence of quotes sought. Of the €1.9 million, expenditure payments of more than...

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The point I am trying to get to is that they were sufficient to have a special report done by the Comptroller and Auditor General. I suspect if someone has been invited in here once, one does not want to come back again.

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I would have thought these issues would be indelibly marked on Mr. Ashe's brain not to allow this to happen again-----

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: -----and that antennae would go up and the ETB would pay very strict attention to procurement-----

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: -----as a consequence. I am trying to find out what governance aspects were specifically included to ensure this was not going to be something that would be repeated by the new entity.

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Now we have an inquiry, and we will not have a discussion about that inquiry, with a very detailed set of terms of reference. One could assume there has been a failure by virtue of the fact there is a formal audit query and there is now an independent inquiry. Has an instruction been given to each board member that he or she should not have discussions with other board members outside of...

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Has an instruction been given?

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Who issued the email?

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: So it has come from the executive.

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to ask about the legal advice. I understand the ETB has new legal advisers. Are the legal advisers engaged to advise the ETB, the board or the executive? Is there conflating whereby they are one and the same thing? Is there the natural tension that should be there in the arrangements being put in place?

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There should be tension. That is the point I am making. The board is supposed to be holding the executive to account. It is supposed to be satisfied about issues. It is not just supposed to take it from the executive that it received legal advice that it can and cannot do certain things. It strikes me there is a significant governance deficit that requires immediate attention and I have...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Contracts (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reasons the State awarded a contract to a company (details supplied) to handle the emergency call answering service in view of the fact that this company subcontracts the work to a third party; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48478/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Contracts (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had engagements or discussions with a company (details supplied) and a third party company regarding ECAS operators in the context of working conditions and pay structure and-or pay rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48479/17]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Inland Waterways Development (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 240. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to develop the canal system in a manner similar to the Wild Atlantic Way and or the Waterford greenway project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48642/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1218 of 7 November 2017, the way in which a person can register and verify a MyGov account if they do not have a phone number or mobile phone device and or a tablet device; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48449/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedures a company (details supplied) has in place regarding redeployment of its own staff based here and or in making staff redundant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48465/17]