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- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I thank our guests for being here today. I will continue the line of questioning started by Deputy Murphy. A number of her questions point to one of the structural issues in the way that funding and the accountability of funding is structured in the Defence Forces. Clearly, Ms McCrum is the Accounting Officer and we ask her questions when she comes before us. Many people in the Defence...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I take the point. The separation of powers and responsibilities-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: -----is really fundamental and we should avoid mistakes made by other countries. However, there is a feeling that more opportunity or more support should be given to military leadership around decision-making processes. I refer to things like recruitment and retention, as mentioned by a previous Deputy, decisions on capital purchases and the allocation of resources for cybersecurity. Can...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Does Ms McCrum accept that the Chief of Staff is in a difficult position? Other agencies of government - often to the detriment of Government policy or the Minister - advocate in public for their service or improvements in their service. They may make a public case against or to the Department. The Chief of Staff is not in that same position. The Chief of Staff is in a much more difficult...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I have seen many civil servants advocating for change across the whole system. I am not saying they have to be party political. The military leadership - let us not make it personal to the Chief of Staff - are in a more difficult situation to advocate for their share of the cake compared with other national agencies. They are entirely dependent on the Department's senior management to make...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: That may be the case for the last number of years but for a significant period of time, we allowed recruitment to get to a point where it was a critical threat. I think everybody can accept that. Recruitment and retention dropped for lots of reasons and issues. My point is that many people in the Defence Forces argue that that would not have happened if those who are responsible for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: There is a greater responsibility on Ms McCrum, as Secretary General, and on her team in the Department to ensure that the demands, wishes and expressions of the operational side are expressed than on their counterparts in any other Department. In any other Department, it would be more appropriate for me to have a direct conversation with the line operator. It would be more appropriate for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I am reminding the Secretary General that there is an additional responsibility on her in this area. I believe some of the issues, particularly around recruitment, have arisen in recent years - not during Ms McCrum's tenure - because, at a senior level in the Department, the case was not made earlier. The same point can be made in respect of pay issues. Simple changes were made by this...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Let me move on to the independent review group's report on the Defence Forces. I suppose in its politest form it showed that there was a kind of tough-man approach within the organisation and that this strong or macho kind of culture was too prevalent. Ms McCrum might have a different view but that was the view in general terms. I would like for a moment to consider families and people...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I refer to tours of duty abroad, for example.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Many feel that not enough cognisance is given to that. That was not a specific term used by the independent review group. Based on representations from members of families who have spoken to me about it, this is an issue. They feel powerless and do not feel supported. They feel in many ways they are also subjected to an approach whereby they should get on with it, pull up their bootstraps...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: We await the implementation of those family-friendly policies and will judge the Department on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Paul McAuliffe: We will be the judge of that when we have the time to do so. I thank Ms McCrum.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (23 May 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make additional resources available to local authorities in 2024 for the community involvement scheme, in view of the inclement weather to date 2024 and its impact on rural roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23347/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will meet next. [22350/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 May 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [23210/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I thank all the witnesses for being here today and for the work that they do, which is often in some ways unheralded until it comes into focus. I do not think anybody will mind me singling out members of the fire service and the work that they do both in Dublin, which I am very familiar with, and across the whole country in respect of both full-time and retained fire services. What the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: To clarify that point, because it is interesting, taller buildings must reach that particular standard going forward?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: As this is an incredibly technical area, let me try and stay with Mr. O'Dowd. In colloquial terms, one might call that a combustible fire system and a non-combustible fire system. They are very generic terms. Is it correct that there have been products on the market that do not reach that standard? To date, have cladding systems been used that do not reach that standard?