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- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011 (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: Perhaps the questions Deputy Nolan will ask will bring forward these facts so I ask Deputy Nolan to continue with his questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011 (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Neilan. May we publish both statements?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: We note the reports, statements and accounts received. The work programme is on the screen. A meeting has been scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, 17 December 2013 for the sub-committee to discuss NAMA. All committee members will be notified about that meeting. We have scheduled a second meeting with the HSE and the Department of Health on 27 February 2014 to examine chapter 21, budget...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011 (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: Before we begin, I remind witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery to turn off their mobile phones because they interfere with the sound quality of the transmission of the meeting. Witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. If they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and continue to do so, they are entitled...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: We spoke about the engagement between the local government auditor and the Comptroller and Auditor General in improving the oversight of local expenditure, but nothing has changed since.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to comment on the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: Can we write to the two Ministers to suggest there is a gap in the arrangement, whether on the local government audit side or in our role as the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Committee of Public Accounts, and that we would like to see a structure in place in which we would be involved in auditing the local government expenditure where it came directly from central funds?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: We are pointing to a gap or failure in the system and asking them to address it. When Mr. Watt was here previously, he indicated clearly that he was favourable towards changes in how our work was done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: We will write to them first, following which we will see if we need to ask the two Secretaries General to come before us for a discussion. We will include it all in the same correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: We will copy the Departments of Finance and Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in our correspondence because they also have a role to play in the issue. We will receive the correspondence first and, if necessary, then speak to the Secretaries General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: No. 4 is reports, statements and accounts received since our meeting on 24 October. They include No. 4.1 - Royal Irish Academy; No. 4.2 - Dundalk Institute of Technology; No. 4.3 - financial statements from Oifig an Comisinéara Teanga; and No. 4.4 - Dublin City University. Are the accounts okay?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: Can we write to them to remind them that this is a dated matter, we are anxious to draw a conclusion to it and we would like to see a bit more efficiency on their side in providing us with the appropriate framework to bring in the witnesses under compellability and to conclude our report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: It is not good enough that it would drag on from year to year. The last item that is outstanding is the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, DDDA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: Will we be able to conclude with the list of witnesses before the end of November so that, again, we can move to close off something that has been hanging around for years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: If it facilitates witnesses, perhaps another day other than a Thursday can be set.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: I am sure members are quite agreeable to that in order to get through the workload but to have that amount of work dragging behind either because of CPP or dates is not satisfactory. Will we be launching the bank stabilisation report next week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: We invited Mr. Doyle, Mr. Neary and Mr. Cardiff to appear before us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: We should inform all of them, and possibly Mr. Cardiff because he gave evidence, that this is our report, give them copies and see if they will come forward as witnesses at some future meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: Would it be possible to facilitate that and bring in the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and possibly the Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and have a discussion with them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 24 October 2013 agreed to? Agreed. We have received correspondence since our meeting on Thursday, 24 October. No. 3A.1 is correspondence, dated 24 October 2013, from Mr. Colin Bray, chief executive officer, Ordnance Survey Ireland, providing additional information requested by the committee at its meeting on 17 October. This correspondence is to be noted...