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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: Has a section, an individual or a system that failed the service been identified?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: Can Mr. Ó Foghlú identify any one person, or group of persons, within the Department of Education and Skills or the VEC who should have at an early stage cried "Stop" and said the business plan would not stand up because it was not based on real figures and that there would be difficulties down the road? Is there any person or group that should have had responsibility to state the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: What about the three outsiders? Did they not spot the difficulties? They were very senior people.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: Did they have the option of saying after they had interviewed everybody that they had not found a group that could do it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: Has Mr. Ó Foghlú spoken to them recently about what has transpired?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: Does Mr. Ó Foghlú think he should?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: Were they paid for their work?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: They were given a very serious responsibility to make a selection and given the fact that they knew what was happening and as insiders would have known even more, they should be spoken to in order to learn where they believe they went wrong.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: I thank the witnesses. I will conclude this session as we have a second meeting to conduct. We will deal with the report at next week's meeting again.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (16 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: 217. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal for invalidity pension will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23780/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: 628. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 399 of 10 March 2015, if he will confirm the action that has been taken by the Health Service Executive and his Department to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of a surgeon (details supplied) and to ensure that the person's operation is expedited; if the vacancy has been filled; if the waiting list is being...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (16 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: 669. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 17 June 2014, if the application process is now completed in view of the conclusion of the naturalisation process in respect of the person concerned (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23164/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: The committee is now in public session. Are the minutes of 11 June, 2015, agreed? Agreed. Are there matters arising from the minutes?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: It was referred to the Garda authorities for investigation. While that investigation was ongoing it was better that we would not continue in our investigation. The committee requested the clerk to contact An Garda Síochána to find out the state of play in relation to that investigation. We will ask the Garda for an update so we can determine whether we can continue our work or not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: It is not ready yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: It will not be ready for a number of weeks yet, it will probably even be after the summer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: There are a lot of meetings that cover it and lot of information to put into that report so it will be next week. The other issue raised was the reports that are completed. The committee discussed that these may be launched Tuesday, 23 June 2015 or Wednesday, 24 June 2015. Wednesday might be more suitable. So those two reports may be published on Wednesday, 24 June.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: The expression "embedded" is not one I would use.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John McGuinness: I will deal with that shortly. I call Deputy Dowds on the same issue.