Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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719. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a report by the contractors administration services regarding the Carrickpherish, Waterford school building public works contract has been forwarded to her Department and to the National Employment Rights Authority; and the action that has been taken. [23560/15]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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720. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of audits the Contractors Administration Services has conducted since its appointment; the names and locations of the publically funded school building projects where irregularities have been uncovered; if a report has been forwarded to National Employment Rights Authority on each occasion; if a prosecution was sought on any occasion; and if a conviction followed. [23561/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 719 and 720 together.

To date Contractors Administration Service (CAS) has been requested to carry out 26 audits of building projects, as well as 2 full monitoring services. (The full monitoring service at Carrickpherish Campus is for the final six months of the building contract which is due to be completed in July 2015). CAS has completed the 26 audits and the 2 monitoring services are on-going.

As a result of these audits, information in relation to 10 projects has been referred to the Revenue Commissioners, mainly dealing with queries regarding individuals on site being self-employed workers or employees. Information in relation to 1 project has been referred to the Department of Social Protection and information in respect of 1 project has been referred to the National Employment Rights Agency. Any follow-up action taken by those agencies in the individual cases referred is a matter for those agencies and my Department is not informed of the outcome.