Results 6,281-6,300 of 26,537 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: What was the value of the fixed-term contract, whereby the €20,000 was paid? What was the overall payment minus the €20,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: It was €80,000. In the contract, there was a clause to pay €20,000 on performance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: The OSi obviously certified or examined the performance. What performance impressed the OSi so much that it paid €20,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: I understand that. What performance did the OSi measure? Was it turning up on time or going home on time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: What specific function did the three staff who received the €10,000 fulfil to qualify for it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: Was it not part of their job to perform to a better level and introduce change, as was happening in the private sector and throughout the country at the time? What exceptional function did the staff have to warrant paying them €10,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: I echo what Deputy Connaughton said in regard to the legislation. I find it incredible that the board, giving each board member's responsibility, would just ignore the legislation. As I understand it, it did not make an application at the time to the Department seeking approval prior to the payment, in the full knowledge that the legislation states one cannot make the payment. I presume...
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: The approval Mr. Bray is now seeking, having paid the €10,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: I understand that, so it is the Minister and the Department that would make the decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: How can Mr. Bray expect them to make that decision when they introduced legislation at the time in question saying what occurred should not happen? What makes the OSi different from anybody else?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: It does not give Mr. Bray the right to ignore legislation. That is the point I am making; it is a simple point. The OSi blatantly ignored the legislation and is asking that the legislation be parked or ignored for three individuals – this is not personal but an administrative matter relative to legislation – considering that the whole country was doing as much as it could to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: Surely that CEO had a standard rate of pay. Was the pay €147,659 with the use of a company car? The bonuses paid over the various years – the years are 2010, 2009 and 2008 although the figure for 2011 was nil – were around €37,000 each year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: What did the chief executive do to warrant a bonus of €40,000 or, to take the figure from 2010, €37,000? The board would have had to approve that. What work was exceptional in that case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: What caused the disagreement that cost €61,000 in legal fees? What was the end result of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: Mr. Collier must know what is in the 2012 report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: Will he give the details to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: Did the bonuses for 2008 and 2009 come to €40,000 each?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: How much was paid after 2009?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: Was that the only figure paid to the chief executive officer whose contract was being terminated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011 (17 Oct 2013)
John McGuinness: How much was paid along with the €80,000?