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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Will Ms Tallon elaborate on that process? What happens after Judge Mahon makes a ruling on costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: After Judge Mahon determines that a claim is the eligible, an invoice is submitted to the Department. The latter passes it on to the State Claims Agency which examines the cost to determine whether it is fair. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Ms Tallon indicated that the State Claims Agency has achieved a reduction, in the claims it has settled, in the costs sought.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: The agency has succeeded in reducing the cost by one half.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: In the case of the remaining 86% of claims deemed eligible by Judge Mahon, no invoice has yet been submitted to the Department. Is there any indication of the cost associated with that portion of claims?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: The claims in question cover the period from 2003 to 2008. When did Judge Mahon make the ruling on eligibility?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Was that in 2011?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Why are claimants failing to submit invoices? This is an issue that keeps coming up.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: The Chairman chartered new territory in the meeting and I wish to ask a few related questions. I will not question Ms Tallon on the following point because I do not think it is appropriate. Was she aware of the meeting we had yesterday?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: We were very much present in her day yesterday. It is not appropriate for me to question her on the contents of what we heard yesterday and I will not do so. I ask that she read the transcript of what was discussed. It is deeply relevant to the testimony of the Department on this issue in the past. It would be beneficial for the work she does if she had the opportunity to do that. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Within that €4.9 billion would any authorities bear a disproportionate share of the indebtedness?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I have a related question on the point made by the Chairman on the limited companies which may be related to local authorities. Is the indebtedness of any such limited companies included in the figures Ms Tallon gave to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Given the scale of some of these companies, if any of them were indebted would it register in the indebtedness situation of the local authority or does it sit elsewhere?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: If a local authority set up an organisation to fulfil a particular objective and it incurred a degree of debt for whatever reason, would that indebtedness be included in the figure the local authority reports to the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Do we have a separate track of what the figures are or whether there is a figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Do we know if there is a problem?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Is anybody flagging a problem at the moment? Some of the organisations involved are very large. I am not alleging or inferring anything, rather I am seeking to understand the situation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Is there a process under way to find out the current position regarding debt in separate organisations?
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Any attempt to understand the human condition and what it means to be human must focus on the role of empathy, the ability to imagine the circumstances of another and to envisage their pain, conditions and hopes. Empathy is central to our efforts to create rules and norms for our society and to live peacefully with those we do not know. It demands that even if we do not know our neighbour,...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Status (27 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a report on the progress being made to date in the development of the LUAS Cross City project. [31078/13]