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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: Does Mr. Callinan understand that it is reasonable to ask the question when nothing has happened after ten years and when the figures are so bad?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: I am not.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: Let us be honest about this, someone is falling down in regard to dealing with this.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: With regard to what I said, it comes down to individuals not inputting the data in some cases. Does the Garda Síochána have a system to identify those people? There are repeat offenders – offenders is the wrong word - people do this repeatedly or do not do this repeatedly. Is there a way to find those people and deal with that problem? What is the system for weeding this out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: I have picked out three examples and I will finish on this point. I have to make the observation after going through all of this information dating back to 2000, and the four reports and sets of recommendations that the Comptroller and Auditor General and his office have made over those years, in those three areas I have outlined there has not been much improvement. In some areas there has...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: May I stop Mr. Callinan and ask what they do? Mr. Callinan said that there is a statutory requirement to have that unit. When I look across all these areas I ask myself, while all of this has been going on for the past 13 years, what has that unit been doing in these areas? What is its role? How often does it meet? Mr. Callinan said it is a statutory requirement to have it but how...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: On the issue of whistleblowers, Mr. Callinan will not talk about individual cases. He has made that clear and the committee has accepted that. It is fair enough but can Mr. Callinan fill me in? I have a concern about the information that it seems is now frequently given to Members of the Oireachtas and committees. In some cases it might constitute a fragment of the information around one...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: Will Mr. Callinan give us an idea of what else there is? What constitutes the full picture beyond the screen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: What are the Commissioner's views on how this committee is doing its business? Let us say I agree with the Commissioner and that I have a similar concern. I am not questioning anyone's bona fides - whistleblowers - but I am getting to the nub of the issue. The Commissioner is saying that in his opinion he cannot make a decision or an analysis based on a fragment of information.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: What are his views on how the committee has been doing its business in that case? Is he saying that it cannot possibly-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: -----make a correct analysis if it does not have all the information?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: The Commissioner is also making the case that it is not possible to make a comprehensive case because not all the information is available. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John Deasy: Thank you, Commissioner.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Funding (28 Jan 2014)
John Deasy: 536. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will grant funding to Waterford County Council under the capital assistance fund in respect of a project (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3909/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Jan 2014)
John Deasy: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned that Ireland is falling short of the 75% flu vaccination target for older age groups, according to a progress report on the 2009 EU council recommendation; and the reason Ireland’s vaccination coverage dropped from 70% in 2008-09 to 56.3% in 2011-2012 [3489/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Jan 2014)
John Deasy: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the reason flu vaccination rates for Irish persons with chronic medical conditions-risk groups were just below 29% in 2009-2010 - the most recent available data - compared to 70% in the Netherlands; and the reason vaccination rates among health care workers here reached only 18% in 2011-12, down from 26.5% in 2009-10. [3490/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (28 Jan 2014)
John Deasy: 676. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the provision of additional services in primary care centres to deliver more medical treatment at community level and ease pressure in public hospitals; and if he will outline the types of services that could be extended to these centres [3491/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (28 Jan 2014)
John Deasy: 677. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a new UK helpline run by the Irish suicide charity Console reported receiving 600 calls in December from Irish immigrants, mostly young men, at immediate risk of taking their own lives; and the interaction agencies here have with their counterparts in Britain on this issue [3492/14]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jan 2014)
John Deasy: He had better put in some lunch boxes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jan 2014)
John Deasy: It is-----