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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Poor people.

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Costs (27 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the implementation of the recommendations made in the report by his Department's working group on reducing the cost of motor insurance; the number of recommendations that have not been implemented to date; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13924/18]

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Costs (27 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I do not believe we should understate the importance of the rising cost of motor insurance. I will support any measures that are brought forward to help reduce the cost of motor insurance for young people, taxi drivers, hauliers and all those working in industries affected by this issue. However, the measures brought forward by the Government are not having a quick enough impact. I do not...

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Costs (27 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: All I can speak about is the experience. Small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, say the insurance is killing them and its cost is increasing all the time. I do not know where the percentage reductions mentioned by the Minister of State are, because that is not the reality. I can give another example involving a member of my family. He is a young fellow who did the theory test, passed...

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Costs (27 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: What is the cost of these devices?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Are any of them more than one year behind?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: What power has the committee if one of them refuses to comply?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Is Solas a private company or a semi-State company?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Is it totally private?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I wish to start with a comment about the cinema in Galway given that everyone has spoken about it. To me it looks like a calamity of errors from 2006 to 2018. I will not go over it all again because the witnesses have answered enough questions on it. I cannot understand how that could have happened given that professional people were brought in and four site investigations were carried out...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: That does not make this one right.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Is that not what the professional people are brought in for, namely, to counteract what might arise?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: That is what I am trying to explain.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: It was my fault. I spent too. We all partied.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Some people did. I did not party much. We are moving away from the matter at hand. A not-for-profit company was involved. Were they business people? Did a few people come together to start a project? Were there professionals involved or were they Joe Soaps?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: The company went into liquidation then. Are there debts left behind for someone else to carry? There is usually a reason for a company to go into liquidation, for example, if the money is gone and one owes money. Are there other hangovers left from the company?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I will move on to more good news. Did Ms Licken say, with regard to the national development plan and the spend on heritage and culture in this country for the next ten years, that it is approximately €1 billion? How will that be assessed? I am speaking about the constituency of Carlow-Kilkenny. I am from Kilkenny, which is a city of culture and heritage. What way will the spend...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: That is what I am trying to ask. Will it be balanced between regions and counties so everyone has a share or will some counties or some projects be ahead of others? Is it looked at on regional basis so it is spread throughout the Twenty-six Counties?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: It is all welcome news.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Bobby Aylward: They are good projects. With regard to North-South co-operation, €41.6 million has been spent. What is the Department's supervisory role with regard to the bodies involved? How is the money spent? It is a lot of money. Where is the money coming from and how is it being spent? North-South co-operation sounds good. Who supervises it and what bodies are supervised?