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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: What happens to the report when it goes to the Minister? Does it come automatically to us?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: So we, as a committee, cannot review that report until, at the Minister's discretion-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: -----he releases it to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: And the visit?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: When is that scheduled for?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: It is important that we have that tri-annual report before NAMA comes before the committee. There are many questions we want to ask off the back of that report but if we have not seen it, we will not be able to do that investigation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Should we write to the Minister requesting the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: We have received and noted these letters and perhaps it is courteous to send a response, but we do not need to elevate them to a status they do not deserve. We should not be sidetracked by them. Previously, we agreed a course of action in relation to the activities of Rehab, and we should now follow that as quickly as we can.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Just to clarify, when we seek compellability, we are seeking to enter into the mode of compellability, under which we then request papers, individuals or bodies as we deem necessary in the course of our being in compellability mode.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: With respect, I think we are at risk of making this personal. When the Chairman reads out correspondence like that, it only furthers the aims of those who would like to think this is a personal witch-hunt against individuals. That is private correspondence received by the Chairman. He can put it in the nonsense file if he wants to, but we are only helping them to create a perception that...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1190 of 16 July 2013 if he will introduce a pilot scheme in Dublin city to trial the use of partial footpath parking in residential areas. [20700/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I wish to ask about the accounts for County Cork Vocational Education Committee from 2011. I understand they have not been signed off yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Does this relate to issues we discussed in the committee previously?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: When does the Comptroller and Auditor General expect to have that back from the VEC?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012 (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Mr. Moran and his officials for appearing today. I echo what the Chairman said in his opening remarks as I have always enjoyed our exchanges with Mr. Moran at this committee. He has been a transformative Secretary General at the Department of Finance. As he said in his opening statement, today is a good opportunity to look back at the past two years and how the Department has been...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012 (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: When Mr. Moran took over as Secretary General, had any of the changes suggested in the Wright report been implemented? Had that process begun or was the report still sitting on a shelf?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012 (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Moran has listed different changes, including the fact there is a person dealing with the State's accounts with 20 years accounting experience, there is a risk officer, several project management teams and so forth. The Department has been totally restructured in the past two years. There has been a total change in the landscape in terms of how the Department of Finance works. Is that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012 (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The type of changes that have taken place in the Department would imply that it was not being well managed prior to Mr. Moran's appointment as Secretary General. Would that be fair?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012 (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Moran referred to getting settled in the Department and then turning to the departmental report on the Wright report and how it would implement it. Are there any recommendations Mr. Moran did not agree with in that report?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012 (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I would like to touch upon the bringing in of expertise. The recommendations in the Wright report talked about substantially increasing analytical capacity in the tax policy area. We spoke previously about getting the right staff in the Department and Mr. Moran mentioned that today in terms of reputational risk. It has also been raised in terms of salaries. I think Mr. Moran said that 100...