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Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: What caught my attention reading this Bill was that it amounted to a legislative initiative to provide legal certainty to our research exemption for companies located here, presumably many of them from the United States. Exemption is the key word here. The second part of the Bill seeks to harmonise administration procedures for many of those same companies under the Singapore Treaty on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Mr. Treacy also sent a note to the committee, or perhaps it was directly to me. I asked a question about Team Ireland Golf Trust and he responded by saying that nobody who applied for it did not get it. However, my point was that the amounts of money involved were tiny and the cost of pursuing that career is enormous. I have been surprised at the reaction to the exchange, because so many...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: The letter has not been forwarded to me and I have not read it. Will the Chairman outline what it is that is perceived to be unlawful? Is it the opinion of the legal adviser that it would be unlawful of the committee to ask representatives of Irish Water to appear before us or simply for its representatives to appear? What is the advice?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: I have a practical question that applies to everything we are doing including the other court case. If we deal with the Health Service Executive or the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport or a body funded by a Department that wants to come in here to explain a situation to money expended from the public purse, is that unlawful then? We are getting to a point of absolute absurdity here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: The Oireachtas commission should cop itself on with regard to the workings of this committee. It will constrain everything this committee does if it applies that kind of attitude. That should be registered. If the commission does not understand what this committee does - it is becoming clear it may not-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: If that is the case then, as I said, from a practical standpoint that an agency that is funded by a Department would request to be here, is it the case that the Oireachtas commission will prevent that by sending us a legal letter every time it occurs? This is a reasonable issue that needs to be dealt with now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: I have other correspondence. It is a piece of correspondence I forwarded to the clerk with regard to an issue concerning University College Cork.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: It has to do with a subcontractor who was in agreement with a prime contractor to do some building works in University College Cork. To make a long story short, the subcontractor is caught between the prime contractor and UCC. They are in a situation where they are owed well over €100,000. UCC has said it will not pay the money in that it is bound by the contract it had with the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Yes. The reason I am bringing it up is the underpinning of the prompt payment legislation which has been updated in the last few years as well as the legislation dealing with subcontractors being paid by the State. Is there a precedent for subcontractors to be paid directly by an organisation like UCC? Is there some kind of nexus for this company which will be in serious financial trouble...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: At the risk of clogging up the work programme I shall raise something else, a matter concerning the Waterford Institute of Technology and Carlow Institute of Technology. Both bodies come under the remit of the committee and have been in here recently. An abrupt announcement was made a couple of days ago that the amalgamation or merger of the two organisations was ending. A joint...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Mr. McCarthy is saying it should be itemised for the special cost with regard to restructuring.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: I think what the Comptroller and Auditor General is saying is that the HEA should also be asked to come in to the committee, if we were to ask WIT and CIT to account for this. Time is of the essence here. I do not want to clog up the work programme any further but there is an imperative to ask these organisations to come in quickly. This has been going on too long. Depending on who one...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Will you make it clear to them that the expectation is that they come before the committee in the short term?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: I think I speak for a lot of people in the south east, not just in Carlow and Waterford, who, when they look at this situation, view it as being messy. They are tired of it. It has gone on too long. They can reasonably expect a reasonable degree of governance when it comes to these two bodies and this joint application. I am coming to the conclusion that the governance of this application...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Can I ask a further question related to something the Chairman brought up earlier?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: It joins up with what Deputies Ross, McDonald and others have mentioned. If it is deemed unlawful for Irish Water to come in to this committee, is there a committee within the Oireachtas that it would be lawful for it to appear before, for example, the environment committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Does its remit allow Irish Water to present itself?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: On a second question, what is the process when it comes to changing a standing order?

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: Does the Deputy recall the line, "don't talk down the economy"?