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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: What excuse is being used?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Chair-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Following what Deputy Murphy said about repercussions, if there are bold boys in the class there will be bold boys in the class unless there are some fines or some reason why they must make their accounts available and have their audits carried out. Can any sanctions be built in? Someone running a business must have the audit done for the taxman and if it is not done the person is fined or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: He will make an excuse because they are in the education sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Bobby Aylward: He was here yesterday.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: I welcome Mr. Griffin and his team. The Department will be very important in the years ahead. I will start on the issue of broadband, in particular, the provision of high speed broadband in rural areas for the benefit of the country. I am disappointed to note that only €5.4 million of the €16.8 million allocated in 2016 under subhead A3 was spent. This is surprising...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: It is not very efficient, is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: It is slow.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: Why is the project taking so long? We have been hearing about it being put out to tender since the most recent general election. Why is it taking so long to place the tender and get the project up and running? Why is it always next year? We heard that it would be rolled out in 2017-18. Then the date was put back to 2019 and we now hear it will be 2020. The date keeps being pushed back...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: Mr. Griffin is giving the committee a lot of information and it is hard to keep up with it all. I just want to come to the brass tacks of the situation. We are aware that the dark blue areas on the plan are economically sorted, the light blue areas is where there are 300,000 extra homes with 2,000 being done, but then we have the amber areas that are marked for State intervention and are...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: What does Mr. Griffin envisage will be the position by 2020? What about the 180,000 people that have none?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: It is 180,000, according to the figures I have here, who will still not have broadband.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: That is what I have in front of me. High-speed broadband to 180,620 homes by 2020, but there would still be 180,000 homes that will not have access to high-speed broadband.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: My time is limited and I want to move on to other issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: How does Mr. Griffin see the State intervention working and what way would the State have to intervene to make the amber areas viable? How will that roll-out be done?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: When will the contract be awarded?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: Reference was made to the Citizens' Assembly and the recommendations that came up there. I am a farmer from rural Ireland and I am worried about the recommendations around carbon tax or fines. Ireland's largest indigenous business and some 90% of exports are agricultural. I am worried about how the recommendations can be married with our produce such as cattle, beef, bacon, lamb, other...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: As the Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, what is Mr. Griffin's personal opinion?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: How am I doing for time?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Bobby Aylward: Inland fisheries come under the remit of Mr. Griffin's Department also. I have experienced that. We have three good rivers where I come from - the Suir, the Barrow and the Nore - but they are all closed to salmon fishing at the moment because of scientific evidence that there are not enough fish to sustain such activity. We have to get it up to a certain standard before we can go back...