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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: As we have a quorum of six members including one Teachta Dála and one Seanadóir, we will commence the meeting. I wish to advise members they must turn off their mobile telephones when attending committee meetings. Active mobile telephones interfere with the sound system and RTE has informed us that it will not broadcast any part of the meeting where interference from mobile...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: I recall from reading media reports at the time between August and September 2009, around the period SIPTU got the report, that certain information was put into the public domain. Did Mr. O'Flynn find he was at a disadvantage in terms of explaining SIPTU's position or his understanding of the position in the absence of that information? An interpretation I might put on it is that he was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: I have a couple of points which I will make quickly. I welcome Mr. O’Flynn. I support the comments made by Deputy Harris that we have often had situations in this committee where organisations and individuals who are under no obligation to be present as they are not members of public agencies, decline to attend even though it would greatly assist the work of the committee and the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Did the fund administrator not notify Mr. O’Flynn, as general secretary of the union, that he was involved in an investigation or audit into the administration of this particular fund?

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Is the first time Mr. O’Flynn became aware of it when he was contacted by Dr. Geraldine Smith who was heading up the HSE audit investigation team and the contact was made in September 2009?

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: I have been closely monitoring this issue for some time and I am very interested in some of the reportage around it; whether that is in light of the examination of this committee or between committee meetings. Is Mr. O’Flynn happy with the co-operation he received from the HSE when he went to it seeking information in an attempt to get to the bottom of the issue? Mr. O’Flynn...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: What was the time lapse from the point of the first contact with the HSE and when Mr. O’Flynn got a copy of the HSE internal audit report?

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: While there may be a sincere motive behind this motion, I have noticed over the last two evenings that much of the debate is laced with charges of political heresy against the Labour Party. When held up to scrutiny, those charges made and the charges inferred in this motion do not stand up to the slightest of scrutiny. Few of those Members opposite who moved this motion and who come into...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposad commencement date for a school building project (details supplied) in County Louth; the timeframe for completion of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites (18 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 328. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the site of the old fishmeal factory at Crook Road, Mornington, County Meath, is secured; if he will outlime his Department's plans to make this site safe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28908/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: I am fully with Deputy Nolan's remarks. I found part of this process useful and the other section is as clear as mud and has created more issues, I am afraid to say. It is very damaging that any inference would go out - and that impression was being tried to be created - that Deputies who happen to members of Government parties are somehow being got at by Ministers. We all know and accept...

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Is Deputy McGuinness suggesting that others, such as the press, Government or the Civil Service have an agenda of trying to do down the potential of the PAC under his chairmanship to lead a banking inquiry or to do down the capacity of the committee to do its work? Does he think this is part of that sort of agenda?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Deputy McGuinness has posited the theory before, so will he respond to my question?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Has Deputy McGuinness spoken to his party Leader?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Not necessarily. I am not particularly satisfied with the response but I understand that other speakers want to contribute. Has Deputy McGuinness spoken to the Fianna Fáil Party Leader about this particular fiasco? Has the Leader spoken to him?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: It is damaging.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Has the Deputy spoken to him since Monday or has Deputy Martin spoken to him about this?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Has he spoken to the Deputy about it? What is the leader's view on it?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Has the leader not expressed his view?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: There is a long-standing tradition that the chairmanship of the Committee of Public Accounts is in the gift of the main Opposition party. Deputy Micheál Martin appointed Deputy McGuinness to this position with the agreement of the committee. Has he full confidence that the Deputy will continue as Chairman of the PAC?