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Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I will start again to make sure I have it. They are important figures-----

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: ----- and Mr. Nolan may well be giving them correctly and I am just getting them wrong. For 2012-----

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Does he have the figures for quarter 3 and quarter 4?

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: What are the corresponding figures for 2011?

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: That was electricity. What are the figures for gas?

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Does Mr. Nolan have the Q3 and Q4 figures for gas?

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: So it is the same as electricity. Will the CER be publishing the gas figures soon?

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: One of the figures that jumps out is the trend in gas disconnections which has tripled.

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I know we are only looking at two quarters but there is a substantial change in that figure in contrast to the other figures Mr. Nolan has shared with us. Does he have any explanation as to what might be behind that?

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: For the corresponding period in the previous year the figures doubled. For that period in the most recent yearn they tripled, so it is a very substantial change.

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I draw a parallel between this issue and mortgage arrears. A set of figures that is of help sometimes in understanding where the crisis can go is the issue of indebtedness or distressed mortgages. Does Mr. Nolan have any analysis on the issue of arrears in relation to the payment on utility bills that might allow us to understand where the trend might go?

Public Accounts Committee: Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011 (17 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: What is the difference between how customers would define themselves and how a supplier would?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board (16 Jan 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to review existing legislation in respect of privately rented housing accommodation and to strengthen the role of the Private Residential Tenancies Board in resolving issues that arise between tenants and landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1080/13]

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)

Paschal Donohoe: Perhaps my earlier statement on the environment in which people were operating was overly bleak. Despite the huge progress being made, it is important to recognise that these are extremely difficult places in which to work, with real challenges from a governance and administrative point of view. Ireland is operating within that environment and from what I have seen, I am absolutely...

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)

Paschal Donohoe: Absolutely. Many have written about the African renaissance. There was nothing that made it more clear what it meant to be Irish than standing on the side of a hill in Malawi in unbelievably difficult circumstances and seeing a well being built with Irish taxpayers' expertise and money and learning that the name of the local guy who was taking me around the area was Patrick. I never met so...

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)

Paschal Donohoe: We do not have to go all the way to Africa to find expertise in producing dodgy receipts. If we had received a bunch of receipts and put them in a file, that would not have stopped what was happening.

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)

Paschal Donohoe: Exactly.

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)

Paschal Donohoe: On that point and the issue on which Deputy Simon Harris has touched regarding how we can learn from this experience to make sure this does not happen in other countries, there has been an examination of recommendations on how our systems work. As Mr. Cooney said, we will only deal with this matter successfully if the systems of those who receive money are strengthened. We can strengthen...

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)

Paschal Donohoe: One of the points I have noted in the report is that the office of the comptroller and auditor general in Uganda had been experiencing difficulties in accessing information within the office of the Prime Minister prior to discovering this issue and that information had been in the public domain. I assume that is one of the points to which the witnesses were referring.