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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: Mr. Cooney will write to us on the other issues raised, including the issue about which we spoke to Mr. Gaffey. That brings us to the end of the meeting. Is it agreed to dispose of Chapter 19, Votes 28 and 29? Agreed. I thank the witnesses for attending. I wish them all a happy Christmas. I thank our staff for their work during the year and the Comptroller and Auditor General's office...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: Towards the end of January.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: Pending that response, I wish to say something, which I mean in a constructive way. I do not accept for one minute, as I said to Mr. Gaffey before, that the president of the Administrative Tribunal could not comment on the report as it was being presented to parliament around 30 November. This is a question of giving €37 million, and more at times, to a country. It is a substantial...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: If members bear with me, I have a few questions. I do not know whether this is a speech because we have heard speeches, confessions and questions and it is Christmas time. We are moving at a reasonable speed in dealing with the issues involved. To touch on what was stated about frying Secretaries General or Accounting Officers when they attend the committee, as chief fryer and someone...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Cooney. May we publish the statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: We will commence in public session. I am asking members to leave the draft report on the HSE until the new year when we will have a better opportunity to go through it in detail when we resume some time around 17 January 2013. Are the minutes of the meeting of 13 December 2012 agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising from the minutes? No. On correspondence since 13 December 2012,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: I remind members, witnesses and those in the Visitors' Gallery to turn off their mobile phones because the interference affects the sound quality of the transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give this committee. If they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence in respect of a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: I call on the Comptroller and Auditor General to introduce the chapters in his report. The full text of the chapters can be found in the annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General or on the website of the Comptroller and Auditor General at audgen.gov.ie.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (20 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for grant assistance made through Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) will be approved. [57429/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (20 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as a matter of urgency. [57674/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nurse Registration (20 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay experienced by a person (details supplied) in their attempt to register as a nurse with An Bord Altranais in view of the fact that they have been attempting to register since 2012; if there is a backlog of cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57431/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints (20 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health his response to a complaint regarding the care of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if he has investigated this complaint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57432/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the lack of services and supports relative to the care of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the staff/client ratio at the centre is adequate; if the clients needs and activity programme are all being met; if some nurses have acquired a class D licence as committed to in Health Service Executive correspondence of 18 May 2012;...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation (19 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed closures in acute hospitals to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57076/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (19 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if he will expedite a response [57344/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Investigations (19 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe involved for the National Incident Management Team to complete its review of the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; the names of those appointed to investigate this matter and their respective qualifications; the date on which this work commenced; the number of occasions on which the family were...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (18 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a student grant in respect of a person (details supplied) County Kilkenny will be processed without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56405/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (18 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will be issued without delay to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56406/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (18 Dec 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a Student Universal Support Ireland grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [56981/12]