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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: May I interrupt? The audit committee did not meet. Is the Áras responsible for ensuring that occurs or is Mr. Fraser responsible?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: I am not.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: I do not want to delve into the specifics.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: I do not believe it is the committee's business but that is my own view.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: Notwithstanding those sensitivities which I entirely accept, is there not a process in which an internal audit function in any Department or quasi-authority should have a procedure to initiate the holding of meetings or for a temporary chairperson to be appointed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: I accept that. From Mr. McCarthy's observations, does any element of Vote 1 cover any form of co-ordinating function or security within the four walls of Áras an Uachtaráin?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: Yes. I am querying whether there may be an oversight function with the body of Áras an Uachtaráin that co-ordinates security services. Is that provided for? If I cannot question staff, I am wondering if it is a function of the Áras to co-ordinate such matters?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: Presidential security.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: I am not asking Mr. Fraser to comment on the President. I am wondering if there is a co-ordinating function within the Áras, liaising with An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: Okay. I just wanted to determine that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: I again ask for clarification. I apologise as I am just a bit confused. It is SI 97 of 1998. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: It relates to pensions. I do not understand why we are confused about what it is.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Farrell: I offer that information because I was confused also.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (4 Oct 2018)
Alan Farrell: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his aims ahead of his forthcoming trip to the United Nations General Assembly. [37513/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Alan Farrell: I welcome all of the delegates to continue our hearings on the topic of tackling childhood obesity. We will hear presentations by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and the County and City Management Association, CCMA. I welcome Mr. Colin Ryan from the forward planning section of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Ms Patricia Curran, assistant...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Alan Farrell: There is certainly food for thought in both contributions. One of the most important things to observe in terms of the built environment from Mr. Ryan's perspective is that for the most part, certainly from my community's perspective as a new developing community in Fingal in north Dublin, the vast majority of the towns and villages in my constituency are developing at a rapid rate. This...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Alan Farrell: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Alan Farrell: If there are restrictions associated with anti-social behaviour that mandate that facilities must close at a certain time, is it possible for local authorities to enforce that because enforcement is often the problem at local authority level? I was a member of a local authority for just short of eight years. Enforcing the decisions of the planning authority was often a major problem, never...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Alan Farrell: Ms Martin said a complaint is required. Local authorities are now empowered to do a huge amount-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Alan Farrell: That is probably the issue we are going to come across, in that it is not possible for us to restrict through, for argument's sake, legislation being passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas because we cannot restrict the operating hours of a facility that has a grant of permission.