Results 21,581-21,600 of 26,624 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: Thank you Ms Moylan. Can we publish the statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: Will Mr. Tierney explain what his role will be from now on? Will he continue as chairman of that board in view of his new job?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: In the foreseeable future what is the position?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: As we stated earlier, Mr. Tierney must attend another meeting. Is it in order for Mr. Tierney to leave?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: Can we publish your statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: Can we publish the statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: Yes. I invite Mr. Tierney to make his presentation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: Before we begin, I ask members, witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery to turn off their mobile phones which affect the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give to this committee. If they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and continue to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: I welcome Mr. Tierney, chairman of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, and ask him to introduce his officials.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: Who is present from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: I now invite Mr. Seamus McCarthy to introduce the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I now invite Ms Tallon to give us her opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 25 April. Are they agreed to? Agreed. The following is the correspondence received since the meeting of 25 April. No. 3A is correspondence from Accounting Officers. No. 3A.1 is correspondence, dated 30 April 2013, from Mr. Michael O’Keeffe, chief executive, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, providing information...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: The HSE SIPTU fund. I thought we might get in the appropriate witnesses to deal with it at an early date, if that is agreed to by members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: The Accounting Officer for the HSE, SIPTU and, presumably, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: Possibly. Was it the HSE or the Department which was investigating this matter prior to the Comptroller and Auditor General investigating it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: There may be other witnesses members wish to ask about. There are two key individuals who ran the scheme. The question of whether they should be invited to attend can be discussed afterwards.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: In order to consider it, the clerk to the committee would, presumably, have to write to and invite both individuals to attend.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: Owing to the fact that they are now private individuals, it is up to them to attend without being compelled to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)
John McGuinness: The Deputy is right. They have already been mentioned in public dispatches.