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- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: Her departure was by mutual agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: How much did it cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: The total cost was €116,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: Was Ms Larkin's departure a loss? Were the witnesses disappointed she left?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: Would Mr. Meaney have preferred if Ms Larkin had stayed? That is not a trick question. A "Yes" or "No" answer will suffice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: No, it is not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: All I want is clarity.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: Nor do I. All I want to know is whether the witnesses would prefer if she had stayed in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: It was just a quick question. On 4 May, Mr. Gleeson stated: "The reality is that between 2014 and now, there has been a roadmap outlined for the development of the sector and its preservation, to be frank, and that has been the Indecon report." The Indecon report is titled, Review of Certain Matters Relating to Bord na gCon. The reason the words "certain matters" are used is that it is not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: The report is not a comprehensive plan. It refers to "certain matters".
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: The Indecon report, in the executive summary, states: "Indecon considers that it will be necessary for the Board of Directors as well as for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to monitor performance closely in 2014." Turnover subsequently dropped by €5 million. Was performance not being monitored?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: The former board member, Mr. Brendan Moore, wrote to the Department when he resigned. Did the Department not take cognisance of what he said when he resigned or was it not concerned by it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: What did the Department do?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: Was the Department very concerned by what he said?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: The Department was suitably concerned. It had known about some of the issues previously and was acting on them, yet the industry has gone south since.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: I appreciate that Mr. Gleeson takes an interest in this but based on my engagement with his Secretary General and others, the greyhound industry is not a priority in any way for the Department. I hope that will change. I do not see its hands all over this. While it was not the Department's decision to make, it surely had an opinion on it. Did Mr. Gleeson agree with the fact that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: From a corporate governance point of view, does Mr. Gleeson think it was correct that the Harold's Cross board was not even consulted?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: Does Dr. Brady concur with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: I refer to a report in the Irish Examiner on 6 August 2013 after Mr. Moore resigned, which mentioned that it was regrettable and he had a lack of awareness of operations. Did Mr. Meaney raise his concerns internally?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Alan Kelly: The statement in the report is attributable to the board and not to an individual:It is regrettable. We reasonably expected that he would have regarded the board of IGB as the correct forum to raise these issues in the first instance. Had they been raised, his lack of awareness of the current operations of IGB might have been addressed and the damage to the organisation avoided. The board...