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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: Is it not the case that they usually work in the opposite direction?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: Maybe we should write to the Higher Education Authority as well as St. Patrick's College and the Department to see what knowledge they have of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: In this case, would the head of the board be obliged to sign off even though it had not gone through the proper channels?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: Can the committee write again to the HEA in respect of this matter to ask how many colleges nationwide have followed this procedure? Would this be an easy way to do it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: While I do not wish to make an issue of it right here, the same could be said of the HSE, which does not use proper procurement procedures in quite a lot of cases.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: Not only that, but the people who get the contracts often are past employees of the HSE and, without procurement, this looks a bit funny to the public looking at this, to say the least. I intend to raise this issue with the HSE shortly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: We might set an earlier date for that meeting. Perhaps 19 February, when we have a vacant spot, because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: ----- there are serious issues in this regard.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: I call Deputy Perry.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, on 5 March.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: We could ask him to come in. At the moment we seem to have experts on closing the gate when the horse has bolted. We need a few experts on making sure the gate is secured before the horse bolts. The next item is St. Angela's College. I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to give an outline of the issues involved. I know that while Deputy Deasy was in the chair during last...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: The work programme is on the screen. With the exception of the meeting on the 19th, which is to be confirmed, the programme is set out clearly. Are members happy to proceed in that way? Is that agreed? Agreed. Under any other business, we have an outstanding matter in terms of the DDDA and Ms Brennan in regard to finishing off that report. We should ask the clerk to the committee to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: They will be coming in to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, and we have asked for that, arising from the last meeting we had. We await that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes. I ask the clerk to the committee to give us a brief update on the two other outstanding matters, which include the case that we have and the SIPTU report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: The SIPTU report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: We might send them a reminder.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: We asked the Chief State Solicitor's office for a breakdown of figures. We have no reply yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: We could send a reminder to them as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: Are we progressing with the SIU issue?