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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: We should accept this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: In fairness, we set out the wishes of the members for certain individuals to attend, and they are those from our previous meeting apart from Mr. Kiely because he is ill, the chairman of the new board, Mr. Cregan, and the HSE. A suggestion has been made that Mr. Cregan would present himself and deal with the report on his own, but I do not believe this should be the case. He should be here...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: We do not know that as a fact.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: The only question that arises now is the fact they have not replied. No one is saying he or she will not attend. We will ask the clerk to check again in the afternoon and determine what witnesses will come before us next week. The other issue is that they should all attend together. The committee is agreed on that. Deputy Harris had indicated, then Deputies Dowds and O'Donnell.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Mr. Goulding did not fail to attend.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: We should not make a judgment this morning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: I understand that, but we have to be careful because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Exactly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: We will pursue it further in the afternoon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: We cannot do it now because we have to hold our meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: It will not be next week. The fact of the matter is that the individuals, as the clerk remarked, have been put on notice. They have not stated that they would not attend. We are simply setting up the meeting for next week in the context of who will attend. We understand that they have not responded and we are just going to check, but our meeting will go ahead next Thursday. We will let...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: I call Deputy O'Donnell, and then we must finish on this matter. We are just going around the houses with it now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: That is okay. Ms Laverne McGuinness will be attending on behalf of Mr. O'Brien with officials from the HSE. The request was for Mr. Cregan to be taken separately, but that request was denied and we will take Mr. Cregan and the HSE together.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: The chairman of the CRC's new board will be present.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Yes. I understand that the witnesses from our previous meeting, with the exception of Mr. Kiely, have been put on notice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: With the exception of Mr. Kiely, the three individuals are Mr. Conlon, Mr. Martin and Mr. Nugent. Separate from the clerk's direct contacts with the representative of that group, we will now direct our invitation to these individuals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Turning to individual correspondence, we received correspondence dated 12 June 2014 from Ms Patricia Doherty, CEO of St. Michael's House, in reply to correspondence received from Dr. Mark Harrold. This is to be noted and a copy forwarded to Dr. Harrold.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: We will send a reminder to the HSE. No. 3B.2 is correspondence from Mr. Martin McMahon regarding investigation by the PAC of widespread misclassification of workers as self employed, to be noted and a copy forwarded to the Department of Social Protection for a note on the matter. No. 3B.3 is correspondence received anonymously from a member of An Garda Síochána regarding waste...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: I welcome another Mr. McCarthy, as I know it is his first appearance before the committee.