Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm, in respect of the alleged defrauding of EU grants which had been the subject of a report to the DPP in 1999 causing the dismissal of the CEO of an NGO (details supplied), that the Department recorded in March 2002 that there had been no irregularities. [39219/13]

Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the irregularity reports on EU grants that the Department was required, and did send to Brussels, were accompanied by a detailed description of alleged fraud that bore no resemblance to what had actually occurred (details supplied). [39221/13]

Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in relation to the Commission judgment of 2000 that significant EU expenditures in Ireland had been systemically maladministered, he will explain the way the Department then made it mandatory in July 2001 for audit trails to be based on all EU expenditures retrospective to 1994; the level at which this decision was taken; and the way it was compatible with early judgments of systemic maladministration. [39356/13]

Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, as a result of the introduction of EU regulation 2064/97, the rules governing grant expenditures here had been necessarily changed in 1997. [39357/13]

Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with reference to his Department's email of July 2012, which requested the former chairman of an NGO (details supplied) to identify his resolution and the action his Department took to implement that resolution. [39358/13]

Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason, despite the email sent by the Department in July 2012 and the outline resolution of the Department of Education and Skills, the Department refuses to acknowledge or reply to any follow on emails from the former NGO chairman (details supplied). [39359/13]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 280, 281, and 285 to 288, inclusive, together.

Prior to the establishment of my Department in 2011 overall responsibility for Structural Funds in Ireland lay with the Department Of Finance. However, the Department of Finance did not then, and my Department does not now, have a substantive role in relation to the issues referred to in these questions. Specifically, the Department of Finance at the time had no responsibility for, nor had any involvement in, any of the allegations referred to.