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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Mr. Tony O’Brien and his colleagues. On the issue of the treatment of private patients in public hospitals, in September 2012 up to €74 million was outstanding for consultants’ fee billings to private insurers. Of this figure, at the time we were told that between €5 million to €8 million was outstanding for more than 12 months. The overall...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect to Mr. Tony O’Brien, we did a report on this and the Health Service Executive, HSE, would have known this issue was coming up in today’s meetings. We are going off on tangents and other issues. This is about money and a matter that has gone on for a long period. It involves approximately €60 million. I am looking for relatively straightforward figures...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: What are the periods involved?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Tony O'Brien can express the view that he expressed to the Minister.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Before we proceed, on the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, is the site currently in NAMA? We should consider calling representatives of NAMA as witnesses as they would have considerable knowledge. They have all of the documentation and would know. There is a major legal aspect to how the site was acquired. Representatives of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority will appear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Normally one strips out repatriated profits from FDI so that GNP is lower than GDP. That is the case for the forecast for this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I want to cut to the chase in the time remaining. Given that investment may increase or decrease this year, what is required? The majority of the people in Ireland are employed in the domestic economy. If we are to deal with the issue of unemployment, the key driver will come from the domestic economy. FDI is extremely important in providing employment but how do we get to the point where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Professor McHale and his colleagues and commend them on their comprehensive report. To return to the issue of the domestic economy and employment, I note an interesting figure on the outturn for 2012 showing that growth in GNP was significantly higher than growth in GDP. This is not usually the case in Ireland. Real GNP growth in 2012 was 3.4%, whereas real GDP growth was 0.9%....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Why was real GNP growth 3.4% in 2012 while GDP growth was only 0.9%? This gives a differential of 2.5%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Are these figures a one-off event?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: What is the role of the Comptroller and Auditor General in respect of the Central Bank?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of the audit of the Central Bank, one would expect that the committee would be able to request representatives of the Central Bank to come before us on specific aspects of the audit and a special investigation would not be necessary. Is it Mr. McCarthy's view that, notwithstanding the Comptroller and Auditor General's function of auditing the Central Bank, committees of the House...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: The law specifically precludes the committee from bringing representatives of the Central Bank before it-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----in any form unless the Comptroller and Auditor General carries out a special investigation?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does the committee have any capacity to bring in representatives of the Central Bank other than by means of a special report? Has this been examined legally?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: In that case, the Committee of Public Accounts was able to bring representatives of the Central Bank before it for one year.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: One year?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: An exclusion was subsequently introduced.