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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: No. 3B.4 is correspondence dated 12 June 2013 from Mr. Noel Wardick, Clontarf, Dublin 3, forwarding correspondence with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Deputy Alan Shatter, regarding the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board. This is to be noted. We are being copied on this and we dealt with the Irish Red Cross last year. No action is required on the committee's part in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: That is a good idea. Agreed. I will move on to documents relating to today's meeting. No. 3C.1 is correspondence received on 20 June 2013 from Ms Geraldine Tallon, Secretary General, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, enclosing a briefing paper on matters to be considered at today's meeting. This is to be noted and published. No. 3C.2 is correspondence...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Is the agreed? Agreed. We will agree the agenda for the meeting on Thursday, 4 July, which will be the Department of Education and Skills, FÁS and a representative of the Department of Social Protection. The agenda for the meeting will consist of the 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, chapter 17 - European globalisation fund, FÁS financial statements 2011...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Before we begin our meeting, I remind members, witnesses and people in the Public Gallery to turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the sound quality of the transmission of the proceedings. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give the committee. If they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I welcome Ms Laura Burke, Director General, Environmental Protection Agency and ask her to introduce her officials.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I also welcome the officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and ask them to introduce themselves.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I invite Mr. Seamus McCarthy, the Comptroller and Auditor General, to introduce the accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. McCarthy and call on Ms Tallon to make her opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Thank you, Ms Tallon. May we publish your statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I now invite Ms Burke to make her opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: May we publish Ms Burke's statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Will Ms Tallon reply directly to the committee on Deputy Simon Harris's specific query in order that we can understand what is going on and draw it to a conclusion?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: The collection rate for the household charge is 79%. The collection rate for commercial rates is 78%. Is that the figure Ms Tallon gave this morning?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: What was the rate for commercial water rates?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: What was the rate for general rent collection for local authority houses?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Am I missing one?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: On mortgages in difficulty, people who have loans from local authorities have the same problems as people who have loans from the banks. How are they dealt with it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Has that been notified formally to every county council? Are they acting uniformly?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: How long will it take to do this? We all speak from our constituency experiences. There are people in serious difficulty who have been in discussions with the council but are not able to resolve their cases because there seems to be no plan in place. Those who find themselves in these circumstances cannot wait very long, as their backs are to the wall.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: That surprises me based on my having dealt with a number of cases. I am happy to hear Mr. Layde's response but what is required next is action on the ground. The sooner it happens, the better for people.