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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: This is significant, in that from the standpoint of the OPW, this constitutes progress.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: This issue has been ongoing for years now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: I thank Ms McGrath. My second question pertains to the proposal for businesses on heritage sites and historic properties.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: Yes, whatever the Chairman wishes to do is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: It is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: This is a joke.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: This is absolutely ridiculous.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: This committee has finally entered the "Twilight Zone". Everyone in this room knows that, within a half an hour of what is said here, the information will be in the hands of a journalist.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: The Chairman is right. It is absurd.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: He had better put in some lunch boxes.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Funding (28 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: 536. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will grant funding to Waterford County Council under the capital assistance fund in respect of a project (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3909/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned that Ireland is falling short of the 75% flu vaccination target for older age groups, according to a progress report on the 2009 EU council recommendation; and the reason Ireland’s vaccination coverage dropped from 70% in 2008-09 to 56.3% in 2011-2012 [3489/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the reason flu vaccination rates for Irish persons with chronic medical conditions-risk groups were just below 29% in 2009-2010 - the most recent available data - compared to 70% in the Netherlands; and the reason vaccination rates among health care workers here reached only 18% in 2011-12, down from 26.5% in 2009-10. [3490/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (28 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: 676. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the provision of additional services in primary care centres to deliver more medical treatment at community level and ease pressure in public hospitals; and if he will outline the types of services that could be extended to these centres [3491/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (28 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: 677. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a new UK helpline run by the Irish suicide charity Console reported receiving 600 calls in December from Irish immigrants, mostly young men, at immediate risk of taking their own lives; and the interaction agencies here have with their counterparts in Britain on this issue [3492/14]

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: Thank you, Commissioner.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: What are the Commissioner's views on how this committee is doing its business? Let us say I agree with the Commissioner and that I have a similar concern. I am not questioning anyone's bona fides - whistleblowers - but I am getting to the nub of the issue. The Commissioner is saying that in his opinion he cannot make a decision or an analysis based on a fragment of information.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: What are his views on how the committee has been doing its business in that case? Is he saying that it cannot possibly-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: -----make a correct analysis if it does not have all the information?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

John Deasy: The Commissioner is also making the case that it is not possible to make a comprehensive case because not all the information is available. Is that correct?