Are the minutes of the meeting of 15 May 2014 agreed to? Agreed.
No. 3 is correspondence received since our last meeting on Thursday, 15 May. No. 3A is correspondence received from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers. No. 3A.1 is correspondence, dated 21 May 2014, from the Secretary General, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, on the sale of lands by Coillte. The correspondence is to be noted and published. Deputy Robert Dowds raised this issue at our meeting on 3 October 2013.
No. 3A.2 is correspondence, dated 23 May 2014, from the Secretary General, Department of Social Protection. It is a follow-up with information requested at our meeting on 1 May. The correspondence is to be noted and published.
No. 3B is individual correspondence. No. 3B.1 is correspondence, dated 19 May 2014, from the chairperson of the Office of Public Works on further correspondence concerning Mr. Eugene Mitchell. The correspondence is to be noted and a copy to be forwarded to Mr. Mitchell.
No. 3B.2 is correspondence received on 15 May 2014 from an anonymous source concerning issues at Cork Institute of Technology. The correspondence is to be noted and a copy forwarded to the Department of Education and Skills. The matter was raised at our last meeting with the Department and a response will issue.
No. 3C is correspondence relevant to today’s meeting. No. 3C.1 is correspondence received on 28 May 2014 from NAMA with briefing material. The correspondence is to be noted and published.
No. 3C.2 is correspondence received on 28 May 2014 from NAMA with the opening statement. The correspondence is to be noted and published.
No. 4 is reports, statements and accounts received since our meeting on 15 May. The various items are listed in the table.
AUDIT OUTCOME
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4.1 |
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland |
Annual Financial Statements for year ended 31 December 2012 |
Attention is drawn to disclosures about a number of cases of substantial irregular grant payments. |
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4.2 |
Special Account for the Purposes of the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 |
Annual Financial Statements for year ended 31 December 2011 |
Clear audit opinion |
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Annual Financial Statements for year ended 31 December 2012 |
Clear audit opinion |
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4.3 |
County Clare VEC |
Annual Financial Statements for year ended 31 December 2012 |
Clear audit opinion |
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4.4 |
County Dublin VEC |
Annual Financial Statements for year ended 31 December 2012 |
Attention is drawn to Note 3 which discloses the outcome of the investigation of irregularities that occurred at a Youthreach centre between 2004 and 2011. A former employee of the VEC was convicted of fraud and misappropriation of funds. The Committee received a sum of €202,000 from its insurers in settlement of a claim in relation to the irregularity. |
These accounts are to be noted and published.
No. 5 is our work programme which is on screen. A meeting with the CRC has been provisionally booked for 3 July; however, the Health Service Executive has not given us a date on which it will submit the Cregan report. My understanding is that it now has the report. We will leave the date of 17 July free, pending a decision by the Committee on Procedure and Privileges on our compellability applications. We are not meeting next week.
