Results 661-680 of 5,601 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: We have never had another member interject within someone's time. That does not happen.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: To continue that line of questioning, if a school currently has no PE hall and is not in line for large-scale refurbishment or a new building, how does it secure a PE hall?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: It is of very little use to the school if it does not. How do schools without a hall secure a hall?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: They do not want a new build and they do not want a large-scale refurbishment project. They just want a PE hall.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: It is just that I am dealing with one particular case, which I do not want to go into because the school has other issues as well. The officials think that the only way they are going to be able to secure a school hall is by pairing with a local GAA club and applying for sports capital grants. It seems crazy that Government funding is there but they are now going to have to engage with an...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: The schools cannot bring anything to the table. That is the problem. The GAA club can bring community money. The sports capital grant can provide money. However, the Department of Education and the school are bringing nothing to the table.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I do agree with Mr. Loftus.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: However, the Department is losing control when that happens.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: The Department of Education has less control over a building over which it has 100% ownership. In any case, it was a continuation-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Of course it is about usage.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I was continuing Deputy Cannon's line of questioning. I think everybody in the room can see there is a policy gap there. I ask Mr. Loftus to reflect on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Okay, then say that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Say that it is a priority.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: What the Department has identified is a gap. It is not a priority; it is a gap. I am saying the officials should reflect on it and come back to us with a solution. I want to focus on three areas if I can get through the next couple of minutes. I was delighted to see the school secretaries programme through which secretaries were taken on to the payroll system for the Department of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: In some cases, more hours were being allocated than were-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: In reality, however, a commitment was also given that the school caretakers would also be taken on to the payroll.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Is that likely to happen by September?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Of course.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I met with the school principals and I have a list of suggestions. For example, we need to handle insurance better. There is much more co-operation that could happen around insurance. Much more co-operation could happen, and I know it does, around the group purchase of electricity and utilities and so on. We could be supporting schools to reduce their costs a lot more. There is value for...