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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I presume the Department is hopeful, based on the reviews it has done, the changes it has made and the expansion to include certain areas, that the underspend will be far less than it was in the previous cases.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: No, that is fair enough.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 17 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
FÁS Financial Statements 2012
National Training Fund (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I would like to ask Dr. Fields about the design of the courses, which was mentioned earlier. The case of TalkTalk is relevant to where I am from. The bigger picture relates to the national agencies that deal with these cases. How much interaction and connectivity do Dr. Fields and his colleagues have with IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland when they are designing courses? When the two...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I agree with the Deputy. I do not want to sound like a broken record but it has a relevancy when it comes to the levying of commercial rates as well. Whether it is the spending of the property tax or the levying of commercial rates, it is an issue that needs scrutiny. It is unchecked in some local authorities as far as I can see.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I had requested that the Valuation Office appear before the committee. I raised that when the officials from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government appeared before the committee last week. Have we set a date for the Valuation Office to come before the committee to speak on the issues I raised, particularly as they pertain to the increase in commercial rates due to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: It is okay. Will any other officials appear before the committee with the officials from the Valuation Office? It would be helpful if one or two officials from the line Ministry, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, who deal with revaluations would come before the committee with officials from the Valuation Office.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: There is the element of statutory independence but it is the line Ministry. I have checked the Act and the Minister has power to revoke and amend the Act if necessary. It would be helpful if officials from the Department that is the line Ministry were to come in as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: I did not realise that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: That is very helpful. With regard to the agenda for next week, can we flag with the Department that this will be raised as it has been raised at this committee in the past few weeks?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: Is that fair enough? I do not know what is on the agenda in terms of Mr. Watt from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform coming in but this is an important issue that has been raised here and we could give him due notice of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: That is perfect. I thank the Chairman for that.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Issues (4 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: 185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of times an order has been made since the enactment of the Valuation Act 2001 requiring a rating authority to exercise its powers to make rates in such a manner that it does not exceed the amount of rates to be paid to it in the first year following a revaluation, except for any increase determined by the...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2013)

John Deasy: You must be joking.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)

John Deasy: We know these figures. The Valuation Office comes in frequently. The figures are documented. The theme so far this morning has been communication or lack of it, on the property tax and household charge, as Deputy Nolan said. There is no communication happening between Departments, particularly on legislation that affects businesses and local authorities around the country. There was no...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)

John Deasy: Was it a complete list? Did the local authorities do their jobs properly in informing the Department of those unfinished estates?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)

John Deasy: It was not a complete list. There have been problems since then.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)

John Deasy: The Office of the Ombudsman has been involved in this on a number of occasions. People have written to that office and gone to it after dealing with the Department. I cannot understand why the Department has allowed it to go to the Ombudsman in some cases. Surely the Department could have dealt with it. It is very simple stuff, if an address was left off and the Department agrees. Why do...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)

John Deasy: Is the Department planning on issuing another statutory instrument to deal with this in the coming weeks?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)

John Deasy: So the answer is "Yes". There is a bit of work to be done. Mr. Lavery has acknowledged there have been problems with the administration of this since the beginning.