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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: To get the costs.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: Okay. As I said, we are still following up on that and we will report back to the committee as soon as we have a reply from the Department. No. 4 is reports, statements and accounts received since our meeting on 6 November 2014. They are listed from No. 4.1. Is there an issue in regard to the Institute of Technology, Tralee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: Again, there is an issue with a sports complex in Waterford. There are serious questions about money and the completion of that project, and how it reached the stage of commitments being given and so on. That issue was also raised in the documents which were sent to me.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: There is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: No. 4.3 refers to University College Cork and is a qualified audit opinion arising from a disagreement on future pension funding.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: We will come back to that. Nos. 4.4 and 4.5 are okay. No. 4.6-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: No. 5 refers to the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, where the council paid the director an allowance of €17,400 without sanction.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: That is the only issue. There is also a question mark over some of the public procurement. No. 5.2 refers to Bord Bia. We will examine the issue of the pension liability with the HEA in January and we will seek a note in resect of this spend. Maybe we should ask for a note from the Institute of Technology, Tralee and Cork Institute of Technology regarding their merger and the costs...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: We will take into account the request from Deputy Deasy. Is there any other business? We dealt with everything earlier on. Can we agree the agenda for Thursday, 27 November, will be the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the development of Limerick greyhound stadium, subject to clarification with the Revenue Commissioners?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: I request that the witnesses attend the meeting.

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

John McGuinness: We are now dealing with No. 7, the appropriation accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General for Vote 22 - Courts Service. In welcoming the witnesses, I apologise for the delay in inviting them in. We had other matters that we had to clarify before this business. Before we begin, I remind members, witnesses and those in the Visitors' Gallery to please turn off their mobile phones. By...

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

John McGuinness: I invite Mr. Gallagher from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to introduce his colleague.

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

John McGuinness: I invite the official from the Department of Justice and Equality to introduce herself.

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

John McGuinness: I invite the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. McCarthy, to introduce the 2013 appropriation accounts for the Courts Service - Vote 22.

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

John McGuinness: I invite Mr. Ryan to make his opening statement.

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

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Ryan. May we publish his statement?

Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: I support Deputy Ellis and the Bill he has brought forward. In reflecting on the Bill and the problem that exists, it is important to look at some of the numbers concerned. In 2013 there were 17,855 incidents of domestic violence and 11,756 incidents of emotional abuse. The statistics roll out in those sizable numbers. We must first accept that there is a very serious problem, and that we...

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." We now live in a country in which the Government is at war with its citizens. It continues to reflect on the various problems people face. We talk about them here in the House but there is very little action. Out of austerity has come the need to review all the old certainties of income that the Government would have had. We need to...

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: The Government appears to be ignoring all of the facts. I continue to work in the private sector and I am in a position to inform the Minister of State that the Government, in the context of the promise with regard to upward-only rent reviews, from which it walked away and its position on commercial rates, is hanging a noose around the necks of Irish businesspeople. It will regret doing so...

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: I want to address the Jekyll and Hyde approach I have seen here this morning. Let me start by saying to the Minister of State - Paudie Coffey, T.D. from Waterford - that he was great once he put down the script. It came from the heart, he knew what he was speaking about and he moved away from the bull in his original opening statement and for that I commend him. I have not heard Deputy...