Results 5,201-5,220 of 5,632 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps I could be more direct in my questioning. The question related to whether the procurement of services from external companies was involved in that increase in spending. To be more direct, there has been much discussion about a company called Polymetrika. In 2019, and in the accounts that are before the committee today, were services procured from Polymetrika?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: So, there were no services in the 2019 period relating to that company?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: In the accounts before the committee, Mr. Ó Foghlú has a broader responsibility. Was there a relationship with Polymetrika in 2019?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: Can Mr. Ó Foghlú outline the nature of the services that were provided in 2019?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: I am a little surprised that that information is not available to the Secretary General, given that this might have been an expected question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: Of course.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: My question is this: did the Department procure services from Polymetrika in the 2019 period?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. Ó Foghlú tell us the basis on which those services were procured and the skills Polymetrika brought which clearly were not within the Department's current resources?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: It was related to the international PISA rankings rather than the accelerated implementation of any new online marking system.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. Ó Foghlú talk to us about the work carried out in 2019 on the accelerated marking system and whether it laid the foundation to use a very select number of areas? Did it lay the foundation for online marking in subsequent years, this year and so on?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: I imagine that when Mr. Ó Foghlú uses the word "speedy", it was probably nothing compared with what he would have envisaged speedy being in 2020.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: Was any of the work that was comparable in that period applicable in subsequent years? Mr. Ó Foghlú is saying they did not relate-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: Standardisation occurs in every year. Were any other companies contracted to provide advice or assistance on the standardisation of examinations as it related to 2019?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: As Mr. Ó Foghlú has referred to those systems, was the coding of those systems or the IT systems which assisted in the standardisation process carried out within the existing IT systems within the Department or did it procure additional services for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: Do we know the companies that are involved in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: Yes. I appreciate Mr. Ó Foghlú's assistance on that. I think it will prove beneficial as we move on with the issue. I wish to return, in the very brief time I have available, to the issue of the posting of payslips, which the previous speaker raised. I think many people will be shaking their heads at the thought of thousands and thousands of payslips each fortnight going out...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: Does Mr. Ó Foghlú have an expectation or a timeline on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020) Paul McAuliffe: The Secretary General might come back to the committee with a timeline on that if possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (21 Oct 2020)
Paul McAuliffe: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person who has availed of the SEAI better energy warmer homes scheme can reapply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31858/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (21 Oct 2020)
Paul McAuliffe: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance the categories of business and industry that the reduced VAT rate of 9% will apply to from 1 November 2020. [31855/20]