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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Thank you. May we publish Mr. Dunning's statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: May we publish Mr. O'Keeffe's statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Before we begin I apologise to the witnesses for the delay in starting this part of the meeting but there were matters that had to be dealt with by members. I remind members, witnesses and those in the Gallery to turn off their mobile telephones because they interfere with the quality of the transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I invite Mr. Michael O'Keeffe, chief executive of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to introduce his colleagues.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I invite Mr. McCarthy, Comptroller and Auditor General, to introduce the accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: Perhaps the clerk will liaise with Deputy Ross on the issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: We will proceed with the request made by Deputy Ross, which I presume is supported by members. The Deputy will assist the clerk to the committee with the issues he wishes to raise. The Comptroller and Auditor General will then consider the request and if that is accepted, representatives of the Central Bank could then come before the committee. The proposal made by Deputy Ross is supported...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: I want to clarify one or two things before we move on. We have witnesses to invite into the room. The building occupied by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is not owned by the Department. It is actually owned by the State and the OPW looks after it. My understanding is that it is a listed building. I wish to inform Deputy Harris that it was not my expenditure. The total...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: I want to make it clear that I do not want to politicise this, this must be kept separate from the political cut and thrust of the argument around it. It is something I would not draw the Comptroller and Auditor General into but I feel, having examined the figures for the first time under that FOI request, that the information as outlined by me should be requested from both Departments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: We do not generally confine ourselves to the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: I agree, Deputy Fleming, and we have put the accounting officers on notice that we will not confine ourselves to the accounts listed - in this case, those of 2011. We have informed them that we will also be dealing with accounts for 2012 and into 2013.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: The other issue concerning the HSE is that it was reported that there was an issue concerning its internal accounts, about which a report was prepared. As I understand it, we have asked for copies of that internal report to assist us with our work and hopefully it will also be available to us at the meeting next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: I will put it on notice, in writing, after today's meeting. I will also forward a transcript of today's meeting to the HSE so that it clearly understands the feelings of the members of the committee. Is that agreed? Agreed. We will now move on to item No. 6 on our agenda, which is any other business. While I do not want to delay these proceedings any further, I wish to respond to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: We will return to that issue anyway but we will write to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: No. 5 is the work programme. Our meeting next week will be with the HSE to deal with the 2011 accounts. We raised a number of issues in our recent report and we will seek updates on these as well as on the broad range of expenditure by the HSE. The following week we will examine departmental oversight of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority DDDA. The new chairman of that authority,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: The reason I asked the clerk to prepare a note on this and to deal with it in the context of the work programme is that on the last day Ms Lambkin of the DDDA was with us, she gave certain information and she was a key figure during the period of time all of this operated. She is no longer available and has taken up employment elsewhere. We are now resuming that inquiry with the new...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: They are over.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: All of that was dealt with.