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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: It goes into whose account?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Is that because of the presence of the special account which is drawn down at a later point?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Collapses?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: The authority gets the money back.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Is Mr. O'Keeffe's point that the larger amount of money upfront is needed to allow them leverage larger amounts of money elsewhere?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Only section 481 accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Another point made in the report relates to consideration of past performance of a contractor. It appears to be a reasonable observation and I am sure the authority has acted on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: On the issue of monitoring, a point made is that 12 of the 25 cases experienced slippage in their contracted delivery schedules. How does the authority handle such issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Does the authority have an understanding of what that improvement has been?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Paragraph 20.56 of the report recommends that, "The BAI should consider setting output targets for categories of programming objectives", and that Mr. O'Keeffe's office only agreed with this in part. What is Mr. O'Keeffe's view of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: By open, does that mean the authority does not lay down specific criteria for applicants? Do the applicants put in the requests and the authority takes it from there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: What is the target completion date for this work? When does the Department hope to have it up and running?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: When Mr. Dunning uses the phrase "exemplar projects", is he referring to large public and private projects?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Would this have any applicability to a normal residential home in the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: I will turn to another matter, which is a report that the Department paid a penalty to the Revenue Commissioners as a result of a technical accounting breach. Mr. Dunning should explain to members what was involved. I should note it was a voluntary disclosure by the Department in this regard.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: May I interject to ask Mr. Dunning one question? One reason I bought up this matter was that the committee has been involved in other discussions regarding the applicability of Revenue Commissioners' rules and the disagreements that took place in that regard. I am interested in understanding the timeframe involved in all this, from the time when someone first raised his or her hand to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Did the initial raising of the issue come from Mr. Dunning's own Department or from the Revenue Commissioners?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Thereafter, the entire process, broadly, took approximately 18 months to do, including getting advice and trying to reach agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: I simply wished to gain an understanding of the approximate timeframe involved, and that is fine. I thank Mr. Dunning for his responses. I will now turn to Mr. O'Keeffe. During this morning's discussion, I have found it hugely instructive to examine the list of projects the broadcasting fund is involved in supporting, which appears in appendix 2. It really brings home the diversity of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: May I interrupt Mr. O'Keeffe there? I wish to make sure I understand this point. Mr. O'Keeffe is telling me that when the authority makes available a grant to an organisation or body, it expects the work for which the grant is being made available to be done and dusted within 12 months. No?