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Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: There are two junctions-----

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I think there are three landowners involved.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Could Mr. Nolan clarify whether he is talking about closing the two junctions, building an overhead bridge and having a means of driving onto the road system, as with motorways?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: What timescale are we talking about?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I come up from Naas to Dublin every day. Why is there a 100 km/h speed limit from Naas to Dublin where there is a three-lane road? I acknowledge it is a busy road. There is a motorway straight to Naas with a speed limit of 120 km/h but, all of a sudden, it drops to 100 km/h. It is 100 km/h to the M50 although it is a wider road with more lanes. With a view to having continuity for...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Is there no intention to change that?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The M50 was a great project when it started but at the moment it is nearly choked every morning and evening. Are there any plans to go further out? I read on the paper lately that there are plans to have connections from the likes of Naas, out from the M50. Since the M50 is overheated with traffic, are there plans to go out further with roads around Dublin? What are the long and...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: My last question is on a local issue. It is about customer signage. I have been toing and froing over this for two years with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, my local authority, Kilkenny County Council, and even the tourist board. It is about signage for a hotel, whose name I will not mention. When the bypass of Waterford was developed, there was customer signage erected, with the bed...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: He knows about it. Obviously, the letters are working.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The Comptroller and Auditor General is satisfied.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Does the Department get its money back?

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Page 108 of the programme for Government states that the "next generation of farmers must be supported, to generate farm income, while positioning Ireland as the highest quality food producing nation in the world". There is huge concern in Kilkenny and elsewhere that the six remaining veterinary laboratories may be under threat of closure by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will not delay proceedings very long because all the questions have been asked. All I want to do is inquire of Mr. McEnery whether the board understands why we are all concerned and why HIQA was brought back in here when the issue appeared in a Sunday newspaper and we found out about an obvious conflict of interest? In hindsight, does the board have any regrets about its position?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Is that the reason we are here at all? This complaint came in because HIQA did not act and that is the reason all this came to light. Does Mr. McEnery have any comment to make on that?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Does Mr. McEnery not see any problem with his being chairman of HIQA and head of health care with BDO Ireland and providing advice? Does he see any conflict there at all? I know he has told us he is not interfering in anything and that he has no capacity to interfere. We accept all that, but does he see no conflict there or that questions would arise over the two positions he holds?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I accept that. For future reference, if Mr. McEnery was asked again to give a presentation to a body such as Nursing Homes Ireland, as he did in October 2015, would he reconsider his position or would he give that presentation if was asked? Would he inquire as to why he was being asked? In hindsight, would he look at it in a different way?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: This my final question. Could Mr. McEnery comment on the anomaly between what is the cost per resident between private and public nursing homes? As a politician, I have been told by private nursing homes that public nursing home care costs a lot more per resident than the private equivalent. Can the witness comment on that, in the context of his role as a financial adviser?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I just wish to ask the question now that the witness is before us.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: That is no problem. I asked it because I thought the witness would not be before the committee again.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: They are all volunteers.