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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: Does Mr. D'Arcy not see an issue with the fact that he, on behalf of the National Gallery, selected this legal firm with no consultation with the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: We can use the word "executive", but it was Mr. D'Arcy who made the decision - he was the executive.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: Who signed off on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: Mr. D'Arcy made the decision and he signed off on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: That is not the impression I am getting.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: Not on this job, though.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: Was Mr. D'Arcy in sole charge of the process throughout that time?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: Is Mr. D'Arcy still in charge of it today?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: As we speak now, if another legal issue arose in the National Gallery, has Mr. D'Arcy the power to make a decision in that respect without bringing it to the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: We should not get lost in words, in that when Mr. D'Arcy refers to the executive, it is just him. In the case of an executive, one could argue it comprises five or ten people, but in this instance the executive is him.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: Does Mr. D'Arcy not understand my concern, or that of the taxpayers of this country, that €420,000 was spent on a case that was lost, that the firm involved continues to work for the gallery, that a decision was taken by Mr. D'Arcy - the executive - to bring that firm on board and that the decision remains within Mr. D'Arcy's power without going back to the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: I accept the point, but I imagine those figures would have been reported to the board in the sense that matters had not gone too well and a lot of taxpayers’ money had been lost.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: I find it remarkable that the decision to take on the legal firm was left to one individual within the National Gallery. A significant amount of money was spent yet nothing has changed. The firm has remained in situ even though the advice given at the start was incorrect. I accept that not all the circumstances were known at that point. The loss was incurred but nothing has changed. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: One thing that has been said is that the gallery is seeking to tender.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: Does Dr. Braiden expect that to happen soon?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: I thank Mr. D’Arcy.
- Bond Repayments: Motion [Private Members] (26 Nov 2013)
Paul Connaughton: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on the motion. I am unable to support the motion, which seeks to stop all interest payments currently being made on sovereign bonds issued in February and which calls on the Government to lobby the European Central Bank for an exemption of the rules of market finance in order that sovereign bonds can be destroyed. However, it is...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)
Paul Connaughton: 542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway was refused payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme and the options open to them in terms of appealing the decision in view of the fodder crisis experienced this spring and the difficulty it created for farmers in complying with newly introduced regulations; and if he...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: I welcome the witnesses. I will try to be brief as much has been discussed. Mr. O'Brien stated what while the investigation of the agencies is ongoing, there are few sanctions open to the HSE if, at the end of the process, a matter has not been resolved. Am I correct that if following the conclusion of the process an issue has not been sorted, one of the sanctions may be a funding cut for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Paul Connaughton: I am concerned that if that happens it will be the service user who will be affected most.