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Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: Yes. It is an example of the depth of feeling about the closing down of courthouses. As the particular case is before the courts, Mr. Ryan is precluded from commenting.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: That is fair enough. May I ask Mr. Ryan about Waterford courthouse?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: My understanding is that the tender process is to be completed by March 2015.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: Will Mr. Ryan give me an idea of the date of completion?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: In 2017.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: Mr. Ryan believes the work will be completed at the start of 2017.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: It has just changed from the start of 2017 to some time in 2017.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: I thank Mr. Ryan and all of the witnesses.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: I am not recorded as having attended the last meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: Like yourself.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: Who is coming in?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: Will there be somebody from the Department of Finance?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: It might be useful. I do not know who drafted the regulations or legislation followed by the Revenue Commissioners at that time. Was it the Department of Finance?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: It might be useful to delve into the area of constraints under which the Revenue Commissioners operated.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: That is really what I am getting at.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: Sometimes I feel like it is groundhog day in here. We made decisions as a committee last week. It seems that when a decision is made, we come back the following week and question that decision and find ourselves on a completely different course. Some of us raised the point that, regardless of how the legislation is written, there will always be different opinions on different laws. We...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: My point is that we are never going to get definitive opinions on a piece of legislation that is entirely up to someone's subjective interpretation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: That is fine, but I do not think our job here is to interpret legislation. Our primary role is to deal with entities such as the Revenue Commissioners and question them on this issue and their investigation of it. We should make decisions after the Revenue Commissioners have been at this committee and let members decide then.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)

John Deasy: I do not know if this is the correct time to bring this up. With regard to what we have been dealing with over the past couple of weeks and what transpired on the floor of the Dáil yesterday, an impression was given and picked up by the media that the Committee of Public Accounts had exhausted the options available to it when it came to dealing with the whistleblower and everything...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)

John Deasy: I have never experienced the kind of misinformation and disinformation that I am now hearing. The Deputy is speaking out of both sides of her mouth. At the very end of her comments, she mentioned the option I had mentioned. That was an option given to us on the first day. It was the second recommendation, to be taken after we had dealt with the Revenue Commissioners. If we consider that...