Results 2,061-2,080 of 4,350 for speaker:Bobby Aylward
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Okay. My time is not up yet. I want to ask about the Comptroller and Auditor General because there is a conflict here. There is an issue. An investigation is going on. Do the ETBs have any issues with what the Comptroller and Auditor General does and the functions he carries out? Are they playing their part in co-operating with him?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Has that been done on foot of a view in the Department that it is needed because the internal audit function has not been sufficiently efficient up to now? Was there a question mark over the way the audits were being done?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: I would like to ask about overdrafts and loans. This issue was mentioned by the Chairman. What structures or procedures are in place for the ETBs to get loans or overdrafts? Some ETBs could run amok when borrowing money. It is easy to borrow money, but trying to pay it back is another thing. What kind of limitations are in place with the Department? How are the ETBs sanctioned for loans...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Tipperary ETB has no loans.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: When I glanced through a document today, I saw that the ETB in Dublin has €2.5 million of a loan or overdraft. The Comptroller and Auditor General might be able to tell me whether this is right. I do not have the document in question in front of me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: The Department has to sanction it, is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: I want to ask about information and communications technology, ICT, which the witnesses have made a lot of play about today. Can they explain how the operations have been enhanced? Witnesses spoke about having to have IT systems put in place when bodies amalgamated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: My last question is about the merger of ETBs. Has the learner been affected in any way? How are the ETBs improving services provided to the learner through this better system that is now in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Local authorities should operate in the same way. I am always hearing that local people lose out to-----
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (15 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: 47. 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 current capacity to accommodate the estimated 450 additional procedures that will be referred there through additional diagnostic angiograms set to be provided by mobile catheterisation lab; and if he will...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases (15 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the evidence the Health Service Executive drugs group considers in the assessment of rare and ultra rare diseases for drugs for potential reimbursement; the measures in place to ensure the participation of impartial expert clinicians in this assessment process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48373/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE drugs committee group met on 14 September 2017 to discuss a drug (details supplied); if a decision was made to reimburse the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48371/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the witnesses outside of the Health Service Executive drugs group which presented evidence at hearings in respect of reimbursement of a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48372/17]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Is it the same nursing home as the one we discussed yesterday?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Why are we receiving correspondence from the county councils? They are not under our remit or under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Why are we getting all of this correspondence from county councils?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Is it 2015 or 2016 you are speaking of?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: They have not produced accounts for 2016.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: They have not produced 2016 statements either.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Surely the Chairman could-----