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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask that. The same will apply to Teagasc's financial statement with attention drawn to €1.2 million non-compliant procurement. We will write the same letter. Moving on to Solas, it is a clear audit opinion, and to Enterprise Ireland, clear audit opinion. However, as part of the disposal of its interests in a company in 2018, Enterprise Ireland recovered an amount loaned to...

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Is Mr. O'Toole moving from SOLAS to the HEA?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: .... I suspect it will not be the only public body about which that remark will be made. I am marking that one. Enterprise Ireland's annual turnover for 2017 is €350 million. The next is 4.3, Solas, funding of €603 million. It plans and co-ordinates further education and training. Again, there are issues of non-compliance-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Service Level Agreements (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a service level agreement or other oversight arrangement in place between his Department and Solas; if so, the date on which it was signed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12068/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is the reason we had the four different ETBs here before Christmas with the Department. I think it was a very useful exchange from everybody's point of view. We had SOLAS here as well, whose representatives I commend. They carried themselves very well that day. Arising from what we have seen in the education sector and the special reports about the timeliness, that is the sole reason...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...a few minutes reading it privately before we discuss it in public. In any case, it is held over to be on the list next week. No. 934B, dated 17 November 2017, is from Mr. Paul O'Toole, CEO of SOLAS, and provides follow-up information requested by the committee at the meeting of 16 November. It includes SOLAS salary costs, staff numbers and a summary of consultancy costs in 2016. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will move on to the rest of our correspondence. Document PAC32-R-893 A is a briefing document from SOLAS, so we note and publish that. Document PAC32-R-895 (i) A. is from the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, providing a briefing document. His covering letter draws attention to the fact that there is an ongoing investigation in relation to the Kildare Wicklow...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...which I referred to a moment ago. Items Nos. 904A, 905A, 906A, 907A, 909A and 911A are the opening statements from the ETBs before us today and also from the Department of Education and Skills and SOLAS. We note and publish them. Category B is correspondence from Accounting Officers and other items for publishing. There are two items of correspondence from Martin Shanahan. I am...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...have been raised here this morning. I will suspend the meeting briefly while some of the officials from the Department who are not involved in the rest of the meeting leave the room and the officials from SOLAS take their seats. Sitting suspended at 10.30 a.m. and resumed at 10.35 a.m.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...difficulty is the fact that in this sector the accounts of many bodies are not published until two or three years after they are due. Some ETBs continue to go back every year to the Department or SOLAS for an allocation of funding, and the Department and SOLAS continue to fund them without having seen the audited financial statements of the prior years. That is a major concern for this...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Ó Foghlú. I will call Mr. O'Toole to make the opening statement on behalf of SOLAS in a moment. Before that, in order that anyone in the Gallery or watching at home understands the big picture regarding ETBs, will Mr. Ó Foghlú tell us the total funding from his Department in 2016 for the ETB sector? Will he give us a break down of where that figure is in his...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: What is the figure for what was transferred to SOLAS?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I reviewed the documentation last night and the question I had was what was the overall figure. I can work out individual accounts from SOLAS and I know the contribution from SOLAS to each of the ETBs.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: And to the PLC sector, or does that go through SOLAS? Are the PLC colleges funded through the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...I asked was how much goes to the ETB sector from the Department of Education and Skills. Mr. Ó Foghlú has told us that €816 million goes to the running of the schools; €538 million goes to SOLAS; and payments to SUSI, processed by the City of Dublin ETB, come to a total of €410 million. Not all of the latter concerns grants to the ETB sector as some of it...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...I would consider to be the simplest, most basic and most obvious question, namely, how much does the Department pay to the ETB sector? I will now call on Mr. Paul O'Toole, chief executive of SOLAS, to make a short opening statement and we will then go straight to Deputy MacSharry for questions. I am sorry it has taken 18 minutes to get our first question answered here today. It is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...longer but I, however, am making a personal call on this and it very much depends what members want to vote on. Mr. Ó Foghlú will be remaining on for the afternoon, as will representatives from SOLAS. Questions can be put to them then. I am giving the committee the choice. I can hand the Chair over to Deputy Kelly-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...relates to ETBs in order to let the committee know what the ETB sector is costing? It is a simple question. The witnesses can come back to us in writing on that. I have two quick questions. SOLAS gave us a good indication of its interaction with the ETBs in respect of the budget and the mid-year review. The organisations meet afterwards, check the figures and assert them. I know...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: My question was not about SOLAS at all.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Some €538 million goes from SOLAS to the ETBs and they follow that money as I have just described. My question is on the €816 million which the Department pays directly to the ETBs. Does the Department carry out a similar exercise during the year for its €816 million as SOLAS does for its €538 million? That is my question. Is the same procedure in place? If I...