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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: The merger of county enterprise boards, CEBs, and the local enterprise offices was not a great idea, in my opinion anyway. I thought the country enterprise boards were doing just fine and now they are going into county councils where there is not a great record in terms of commercial operations. I hope Enterprise Ireland will keep a close eye on them. Can you tell me the cost of the new...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: I ask Mr. Hayes to give us information on the CEBs and their leases if they vacated properties. Could he give us a report on the ones that were transferring straight to local authorities? Are they now using council offices? Are they retaining their own offices? What is the cost involved there? Were some of the staff contracts terminated? Just so that we can get a flavour of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Who will audit the new LEOs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: We will hear very little of that so. I presume that is catered for in legislation. The new LEOs will not be audited by Enterprise Ireland; they will be audited by the local government audit team. Will they then give Enterprise Ireland a report every year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: I will give Mr. Hayes my view. Enterprise Ireland needs to ensure it has a clear line of sight on the audit conducted by the local government audit team so that it gets some sort of report on the money Enterprise Ireland has given to these local enterprise offices so that in turn the Comptroller and Auditor General can look at and we can examine it. It is all taxpayers' money. I have a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: The Department of Education and Skills gives money to the Higher Education Authority and so on, and it goes out from there. No one seems to trace it after that as accurately as one would like on behalf of the taxpayer. I hope Enterprise Ireland can set a model in place that could be followed by others where there is transparency right down to the spend of the taxpayers' money and that we...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Good. Mr. Hayes should work them hard. The BDM scheme funds the CECs. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: A new scheme is to be introduced and there is much consultation with Enterprise Ireland and the Department. Is that new scheme in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Is that announcement imminent because these BDM contracts were put in place in 2012? The contracts started to run out between 2012 and 2014. Now there is some urgency about this because there is a question mark over performance, future funding and all of that. How soon will they be told?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Is that when some announcement will be made?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: A local organisation wrote to me about this and I know that other Members received the same thing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: I hope they will not be left waiting for too long.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: I ask Mr. Shanahan and Ms Sinnamon to come back to us on Taiwan. I forgot to mention the number of students who travel from Taiwan to the UK. It is a huge business. A few of them end up here in Ireland and they are anxious to promote a student exchange between Ireland and Taiwan. In fact arrangements are already in place to allow that to happen. However, given even the spin-off from...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Thank you, Ms Sinnamon and Mr. Shanahan, and all of your officials for coming here today. We had a good exchange. Do the members of the PAC agree to dispose of the 2013 financial statements of both the IDA and Enterprise Ireland? Agreed. I also put members on notice about information that I have received which I intend to pass to the clerk because it concerns on one side very...
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: I have a question about the Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014 and one about the implementation of Bills relative to care workers already passed by the House, as well as on the report in the newspapers over the weekend on the alleged sexual abuse that had taken place on the borders of Kilkenny and Waterford over a 20 year period. The matter was reported to the Health Service...
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: -----by a Kilkenny family whom he has met about the provision of “Jake’s law”? The case was made to him on the basis of the death of the child in a housing estate and the introduction of speed limits. I am told the Taoiseach may consider the introduction of legislation on this issue. Is that the case? Would he support legislation to bring forward that speed limit to...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: I thank Deputies Ellis and McDonald for bringing forward this Bill and for the help and support they have given the Brennan family since this became an issue and in particular, over the last few days as they highlighted the issue outside Leinster House. That shows the lengths people must go to in order to highlight an issue that has arisen in different housing estates in this country which...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Dáil Reform (17 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: 171. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times Dáil Éireann has sat on a Friday since Friday sittings were introduced by the Government; the number of Bills introduced during Friday sittings; the number of these Bills that were accepted by the Government and their status at present; the number of these Bills voted down by the Government; the number of these Bills that have passed all...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (17 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: 202. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [7064/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Policy (17 Feb 2015)
John McGuinness: 282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an interdepartmental group has been established by him to bring forward proposals to support economic development in rural Ireland; the date the group was established; the membership of the group and the way each member was selected; the number of meetings held to date; the progress being made; if the threatened closure of bus...