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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: What about proper governance, leaving aside the financial dealings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The only excuse then is that it was the culture of the day. It was happening and if that was the way things were done, so be it. That is basically what Mr. Waters is saying.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Do either of Mr. Waters's colleagues have any comment on what I have asked?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: As the Department responsible, the Department of Justice and Equality will be more closely scrutinising everything that is happening within An Garda Síochána in future. Under the new arrangements, nothing like this will happen in the future.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will ask Mr. Waters one last question personally. Does he think someone should pay the price for what happened? I asked the Commissioner this earlier this evening. I am asking for his personal opinion.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Does he accept that there was wrongdoing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: With regard to the Policing Authority, its new set-up and role and so on, does Ms Feehily feel the authority has enough powers? I know it is only starting out and has only been established for 12 months. Does Ms Feehily feel that the authority has enough powers to scrutinise what happened and that it will have a role in the future?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will ask a hypothetical question. If the Policing Authority had been around during the turmoil years, or whatever one would like to call them, does Ms Feehily think the authority would have spotted and stopped what went on in the situation at hand? I know it is a hypothetical question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: My last comment is that, with all the scrutinising that will be going on in An Garda Síochána from now on, we should have everything worked out right.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 63. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be allocated to the existing cardiac catheterisation laboratory at university hospital Waterford in order to increase the laboratory's current capacity to accommodate the estimated 450 additional procedures that will be referred there through additional diagnostic angiograms set to be provided by the mobile catheterisation lab;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (21 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 83. To ask the Minister for Health if motor neurone disease is not included in the long term illness scheme; the reason this is the case; his plans to add it to the scheme; if this can be prioritised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27907/17]

Other Questions: Potato Sector (22 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: That is true.

Other Questions: Agriculture Scheme Administration (22 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 9. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to identify and rectify the persistent problems with the information technology system in his Department's Portlaoise office, which is leading to consistent delays in payment for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28162/17]

Other Questions: Agriculture Scheme Administration (22 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Like my colleagues, I congratulate the Minister of State and I wish will him in the continuation of his Ministry. He will do a good job. I served with him previously on the agriculture committee and he has good insight into the industry. What are his plans to identify and rectify the persistent problems with the information technology system in the Department's Portlaoise office, which is...

Other Questions: Agriculture Scheme Administration (22 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: There is a need for an immediate review of the current IT payment systems following the massive problems faced by farmers submitting applications for overdue payments under many rural development programme schemes. Enormous barriers are being experienced with the online system for GLAS, TAMS, the beef genomics programme and the knowledge transfer group scheme. The addition of a plethora of...

Other Questions: Agriculture Scheme Administration (22 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The Department's administration of some recent farm schemes was branded totally unacceptable by the IFA as recently as last month. I understand the IFA requested meetings with the Minister to ensure the situation is taken under control as a matter of urgency. Will the Minister of State facilitate a meeting with the IFA? The IFA President Joe Healy has said the GLAS payments controversy,...

Other Questions: Agriculture Scheme Administration (22 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It was not always the fault of the farmer.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Inspection Service Administration (22 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 45. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will guarantee the future of the regional veterinary laboratory in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28161/17]

Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome the witnesses back for the second time. The RTE programme has put a different light on the evidence that was given the last time when the questions were asked. I am going to start with UCC. I will ask some of the questions that Deputy Cullinane asked already, but I have them made out in order so I am not going to change them. I am going to stick to them. The PAC was told that...

Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Is this charge to the campus now going forward?