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Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

John Deasy: Is it the case that NAMA is not overly concerned about this?

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

John Deasy: I have a question that may be appropriate to ask of the chairman of NAMA. It probably is fair to state that Waterford's city centre has suffered a great deal over the past five years with the departure of businesses. My understanding is that NAMA is examining its assets around the country to ascertain how they can be rejuvenated and turned into viable options. Included among the sites is...

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

John Deasy: So the first thing is that new planning permission must be sought.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

John Deasy: I thank the chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: I welcome Mr. Watt and his officials and wish to raise with them the issue of commercial rates. The committee has already discussed this issue with officials from the Departments of Finance and the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Valuation Office. It is one that has been raised in committee approximately eight or nine times at this stage. I inform the committee that I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: The lack of foresight in policymakers concerns me. That is not within the Department but rather within local authorities and the so-called harmonisation of rates. There is not much harmony in the case of Government and business people, so it is probably a bad word. Is it not the case that when the legislation was being drafted to harmonise the rate for Dungarvan, for example, with a county...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: The Chairman and committee have been substantially involved in this over recent months. I have asked for a meeting with the Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to discuss these matters and I hope she will revert on that. I appreciate Mr. Watt's efforts and his giving the matter time and thought. We have spoken about officials working on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact the proposed cutbacks in primary teaching resources will have on outreach sessions for children of circus and fairground families. [42961/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to ensure that children of circus and fairground families will receive improved secondary education supports. [42962/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Exemptions (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: 131. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties encountered by members of the Irish Showmen's Guild in obtaining motor tax and avoiding prosecution in respect of vehicles conveying funfair and circus equipment, due to the absence of a special vehicle taxation category; and if he proposes to follow most other EU...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: Like Deputy Nash, I will begin by thanking the institute for the effort it has made in the context of making full disclosure to the committee. Reference was made to chick lit and other issues. I need to balance such references with the fact that the institute is now ranked first among all the institutes of technology in Ireland in the context of attracting research funding. WIT does some...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: Fair enough. After the fact, did anyone ask the president and the chairman of the board what he knew and when he knew it?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: The process has changed. Can Mr. Ó Foghlú explain how the relationship between the institutes and the Department has changed?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: Has what happened in Waterford acted as a catalyst for change in this entire regime, when it comes to what Mr. Ó Foghlú called the cascade of responsibility?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: Okay. Fair enough. Can I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General, who obviously was not in this position back then, a variation of that question with regard to his office and auditing going back ten years? Is he happy that it was carried out as it should have been with regard to the potential breaches of the expenses guidelines?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: I raised this question because of something the Chairman said at the September meeting. He asked about the other arms of the State with an oversight function and whether they performed properly outside of the internal oversight in the institute. Mr. Boland said that certain things were in train but things have changed and are changing dramatically since 2010. At the meeting of last...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

John Deasy: Getting away from all this, I have number of questions for Dr. Neavyn. He mentioned in his opening statement that WIT is moving away forward to stage 2 of the university designation process. Can Mr. Neavyn outline what that process is, the timeframes involved, where WIT is right now with regard to Carlow, what we can look forward to over the next year with regard to that process and the...