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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Mar 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health if an early date for a hip operation will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [11248/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Mar 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health if a bed will be made available as soon as possible in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11249/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (5 Mar 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health the reason an operation was cancelled in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11257/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Mar 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health if home help and respite will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; if he will expedite a review of their case [11259/13]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: I forgot to ask a question on school transport. Is Mr. Ó Foghlú aware of a termination agreement within the school transport agreement that should it be terminated, Bus Éireann would be paid in the region of €55 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: I suggest to members in that regard that we leave Vote 26 open. Mr. Ó Foghlú has mentioned the value for money audit undertaken by his Department on the school transport scheme. We want to examine that audit. Mr. Ó Foghlú might let us have a copy of it. I know it is a public document on the Department's website.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: There are other documents related to this matter which the Department is going to send to the committee, including the documentation on the underlying agreement. We want the information on the way in which the amount Bus Éireann would have to be paid should the contract be wound up was arrived at. We will have the total information on who made the arrangement and how it was arrived at....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: I do not want to delay the meeting, but if it can be done quickly, it would be useful.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: The Minister will receive the report on Waterford Institute of Technology by the end of March. How soon thereafter will the committee receive it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: Is that the three month period?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: I also ask the Department to provide the detail of the business plan for capital works at the Institute of Technology Tallaght. What building programme was gone into and what was the business plan? Was the Department involved? The Department might also let us know about the monitoring of institutes of technology expenditure and accounting generally. Is there a unit in the Department to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: Is that a new tendering process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: Can Mr. McCarthy come back to us on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: He is asking a question and he does not know the answer to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: It would be helpful for us to get a list of those schools that have not been completed where a contractor has gone out of business, including details of the bonds that were in place and whether they were subsequently retendered or what happened. The witnesses will be aware that Loreto school in Kilkenny is in the same circumstances and I would like to know about it. It is difficult to get...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: Let us have in writing the overall breakdown for the different categories.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: I am asking Mr. Ó Foghlú about his concerns. We should get this straight. Some €105 million goes on contractors and their costs. That is my understanding of the figures in front of us. I would like the witness to tell me how confident he is about the quality of that tender process. That is my first question. It is €152 million involved in all this spend. Some...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: I will return to the issue later.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: If costs were reduced by €8.5 million in one year and there was an Exchequer gain of €6.8 million in the same year, does that mean €15 million was not for one reason or another used in the school transport scheme that year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) John McGuinness: We can dispute the reasons for it but there was a saving of €8.5 million.