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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: We have an available slot on 12 March. Does that suit?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: The clerk will contact Revenue and we will try to set up a meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: We have the information from Revenue and we are going to go through the figures with them. We will be asking about the overall take, how it happened and so on.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: We will check that point with Revenue and what we do will depend on their reply.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: We have different terms of reference. I would love to extend an invitation to someone from HSBC to attend and if they were willing to do so, I would love to hear what they had to say. Our remit, though, is to work directly with Revenue in this case. It might be worthwhile to write to HSBC to ask if they want to be present at the meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: We will extend an invitation to them. I wish to go back to the HEA correspondence and wish to clarify what I was saying. Under the details for WIT, it states the institute has incurred direct costs of €152,000 and it gives a breakdown of the expenditure. It includes travel and subsistence of €5,900 and office and other expenses of €5,000. I am trying to relate that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: No. 3B.4 is correspondence received from Ms Marie Hickey-Dwyer regarding a Health Service Executive matter which will be passed to the HSE for its comments. Correspondence dated Friday, 13 February 2015 from the HSE is a reply to an anonymous correspondence regarding cover up and corruption in the HSE. This is to be noted and published. Correspondence dated 2 February 2015 from Mr. Brian...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: What is the deficit?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: We then have No. 4.2, No. 4.3 and No. 4.4. The Horse Racing Ireland annual report is No. 4.5. Any comments on that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: These accounts are all to be noted. We have had our attention drawn to the two issues by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Last week, as part of the work programme, we went to Howth to see the situation out there. A number of members examined the properties and heard from local business people. It was quite a shocking experience to listen to the story of properties being vacant for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: Lest there be any doubt about this, we wish to find out where the leases have been stalled and whether it is within the Department or from a legal perspective, either in house or out of house, to determine each lease across Howth and in the other locations we are discussing. Does any member who was there wish to comment?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: Our work programme is set out. Next week we will have the procurement issues we discussed previously in respect of school supplies and so forth. The members of the group that were in the Visitors Gallery will be present also. Will members indicate to the clerk to the committee whether they are available next Wednesday? It is our intention to travel to Northern Ireland. No. 6 is reports...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: I thank Ciaran and welcome Deirdre. We look forward to working with her. In the first session at 10 a.m. next week we will have the Small Firms Association and the Irish Schools Arts Supply Federation. The second session will be at 12 p.m. with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to examine Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform; Vote 12 -...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: The representatives of that office are appearing before the committee immediately afterwards. We are hearing first from those who are affected by, or have a view on, procurement. After that we will deal with the Accounting Officer and their staff.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: We are giving the opportunity to both organisations to give their views about procurement, why it is not working for them and how they have been adversely affected by the procurement process. Having dealt with that, as an example, we have other examples from previous hearings that we will be able to put to the Department's officials and to the section that is responsible for procurement. We...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: Yes. We will suspend until 11 a.m. when the officials from the Office of Public Works are due to meet us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts 2013
Vote 13 - OPW
Chapter 4 - Accounting for OPW Agency Services (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to please turn off their mobile phones. Witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and they continue to so do, they are entitled thereafter only to a qualified privilege in respect of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts 2013
Vote 13 - OPW
Chapter 4 - Accounting for OPW Agency Services (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: Mr. Quigley needs no introduction.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts 2013
Vote 13 - OPW
Chapter 4 - Accounting for OPW Agency Services (26 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. McCarthy and invite Ms McGrath to make her opening statement.