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- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (26 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: 519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 22 October 2013 if farm payments will be approved and paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [50167/13]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: I am not taking issue with that or with Mr. Rainbird. My point concerns the process of selection and the authority given to pay and so on. To facilitate its work, the Committee of Public Accounts would like to see the letter of sanction and some of the associated correspondence so it can understand exactly the extent to which the gallery has to go to receive clarification or sanction. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: What section is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: The circular states, "provided the officer satisfies the Department concerned". An issue arises here for the Department. I would like to know the details because, without reading this, it was being made clear that Circular 6/1989 did not apply in this case. Now that one reads it, one realises further clarification for this committee is absolutely necessary. I ask, on behalf of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Yes. This goes to the heart of the other problems being debated today. May we have a commitment from Mr. Ó Donnchú that his Department will consult the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the gallery to clarify, in respect of the circular, the action taken on the matter by the gallery with his Department? He should provide us with the appropriate paper trail so we can...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: We will not deal with the question on whether the committee agrees to dispose of Chapter 15, Vote 34, of the 2012 annual report and appropriation accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General until we get the full report and paper trail from the Departments and the gallery. It remains open so we can return to it. I thank the witnesses for attending, particularly Mr. Rainbird. He had to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Why not? If it is a removal expense, it is a removal expense-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: -----and one would not be paying income tax on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Has the Department made its position clear to the gallery on this? Has the Department written to it explaining its determination of removal expenses and what the Department might consider to be a reasonable ceiling on those expenses? Has the Department expressed that opinion in detail in writing to them so as to give them some guideline?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: When will that report be available?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Ms Olive Braiden, when is it likely?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Did Dr. Braiden seek advice from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: How would Mr. Quigley and Mr. Ó Donnchú expect the board to comply when the Department did not respond with the comprehensive detail that was necessary to define their position? It has been stated here that there was a willingness to try to comply, there was a request for information, there was advice sought in terms of the taxation on that amount and the Department did not set...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Has Mr. Quigley any such recollection?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: It is strange that it is only now that this question is being addressed by the two Departments. No one challenged Dr. Braiden on her opening remarks, in which we states, "The board sought guidance from [Mr. Ó Donnchú's Department] on the approach to determining, setting and paying these removal expenses and was advised that the board ought itself interpret the wording in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: However, the concern really is that this was not the case. Mr. Ó Donnchú now has the answer from the Comptroller and Auditor General and I would have expected the Department to have had oversight, not on every single detail, but to the extent that in general, it was happy with the procurement process or that the gallery had signed up to a code of governance and so on, as would have...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Relative to that €6 million, what will the Department expect from the entity that will spend it? Has the Department put in place the appropriate guidelines and rules with that entity in order that it will follow procurement procedures and best practice in governance? For example, has the Department spoken to that board in order that the regulations are pursued and followed to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Will that special company report to the Department, to the Comptroller and Auditor General or to the local authority?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: That is my concern and I am afraid I must raise it with Mr. Ó Donnchú. The central Exchequer allocate the funds of €6 million and Mr. Ó Donnchú's Department is the responsible Department in this particular instance. As a taxpayer or as someone whose job it is to look at public accounts, I would expect that the aforementioned €6 million would be accounted...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: And the procurement regulations and so on will follow.