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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: However, the point being made in the report and referred to by Mr. Barry is that the down-side has been firmly shared by everyone involved. Will he develop this point?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Is that situation particularly acute in Ireland, given the scale of the adjustment and difficulties through which we have gone, or is the experience more broadly shared?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I will conclude on that point. Our difficulty in discussing these schemes is that when we press further on a particular project, the answer that we tend to get from Mr. Barry and others is that they cannot go into the detail for reasons of confidentiality, which I understand. In the absence of those types of answers, a judgment along the lines to which I referred earlier is often formed. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes. There are many apps available through which people can access information on what time and where buses will arrive. The change has been remarkable. It must be recognised.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: No, a Paschal nudge rather than anything else. I winced somewhat when Mr. O'Mahony referred to people drinking cappuccinos and looking at their apps.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Mr. O'Mahony would be entirely incorrect with regard to me. The system is great and that must be recognised. On CIE, I would like to hear from Mr. O'Mahony about the nature of the governance relationship that the Department has with CIE, particularly in light of the recent reports on losses at the company and concerns in that regard. Perhaps Mr. O'Mahony would outline the nature of that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: It is extraordinary that a company would suddenly discover that it had hit its borrowing limit.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: The level of concern was such that it was considered a weekly statement on cash flow was appropriate.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: What role does the NTA play in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Okay; I understand the distinction. I am familiar with the legislation behind the setting up of the authority and understand the relationship it has with companies such as CIE. As concerns were raised by PricewaterhouseCoopers, does the Department engage with that company and how is this tracked? It issued an "emphasis of matter", as it was concerned about the ability of CIE to trade into...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: What is the assessment of the implementation of the systems referred to in that respect? I am referring specifically to the financial reporting systems.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority (7 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Has there been an instance in recent years in which the CIE accounts were delayed as they were at the end of last year?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Threat (12 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the measures he has put in place since the chalara fraxinea disease was found in ash trees here; the results that the Winter survey presented and the additional measures he thinks are necessary in order to deal with the affects of this disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6823/13]

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: When future historians come to write books about recent events in Ireland and when their readers browse the indexes relating thereto, one of the first phrases they will encounter under the entries relating to Fianna Fáil will be "promissory notes". The promissory notes and the payments relating thereto constituted, as Deputy O'Donnell noted, a booby trap for generations to come, because...

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Fianna Fáil foisted upon taxpayers tens of billions of euro in liabilities as a result of its inability to regulate the banking system. It could not regulate the former Anglo Irish Bank, the debt of which dwarfed the sum total of all goods and services produced in this country. This Government, of which Fine Gael is a member, obtained agreement from the European Central Bank and other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be possible to include a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8 in the school building programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8801/13]

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Acting Chairman. Just before addressing a core point on the Finance Bill, I will respond to a point made by my colleague, Deputy Ross. As someone who worked in a multinational company myself, I acknowledge Deputy Ross is well aware of the sector's importance. Yesterday, Facebook announced it would create another 100 jobs in the country. I also remind the Deputy that our balance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the need for a secondary level school for educate together; and if his Department has assembled any plans in the provision of such a school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9021/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review the process of awarding patronage of secondary level schools within the existing boundary of Dublin City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9022/13]

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I, too, want to focus on a particular issue relating to the operation of the property tax. I am concerned about properties that have been flooded in the past or which face the risk of flooding in the future. There are hundreds of such homes within my constituency and I am aware that this is also an issue nationwide. These houseowners cannot get insurance and are in a situation where the...