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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That concludes the questions. Ms Larkin can probably see the trajectory of our concerns. When she reflects on it, if she feels there were any issues she did not get to raise during the meeting, she can write to the committee in advance of us preparing recommendations. We would not want to prepare recommendations that are not feasible to implement. There is a lot of concern about the level...
- National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister again for being here for these statements, as he was a number of weeks ago when time was made available to discuss this issue of the national maternity hospital. On that occasion I said I did not believe any Member of this House wanted the national maternity hospital run by a religious order and that is still the case. Not only is it the case but, following the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (12 May 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: 7. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason that current defence spending was 5% under profile at the end of April 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23508/22]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I thank the witnesses for being here today. I want to return to the issue of the site purchase for the city campus, and particularly the events of 5 April, when there was a governing authority meeting. I will preface my comments by saying that I differ slightly from some of the previous members in that I would be concerned, as a member of the Committee on Public Accounts, if, despite...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Therefore, there is nothing to prevent the Committee of Public Accounts or any other body from carrying out a similar investigation and coming up with conclusions of their own. Would that be fair to say? For example, the Department could carry out an independent review.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: That is correct. Okay. It is not unusual, I suppose, for people who are party to the findings of a report to seek the recourse of the courts to prevent their publication. This happens pretty much with every Government report that files a hard finding. All of that being said, I understand the university’s position, but I hope the witnesses will appreciate our frustration as well. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Was that information tabled verbally at the governing authority?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Therefore, was a document circulated to the governing authority that detailed some of the information-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: -----which Ms Harney is verbally reporting here? Was it circulated to all members of the governing authority?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: If members of the governing authority other than Ms Harney were asked if they believed that an independent valuation was available, would they all be of the view, given the written evidence that was put before them, that a valuation was available?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: There is no concern on Ms Harney’s behalf. DCU is a fantastic university in my area. They carry out a lot of good work. This is an empty site. I imagine that there was huge enthusiasm for it. Does Ms Harney believe that the enthusiasm in the room resulted in the members not carrying out the due diligence, or the conversation that should have happened? Or does she believe that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Ms Harney says that this was the preferred site.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I can understand why it might be the preferred site. However, Ms Harney can understand our concern that just three days earlier, a funding application had been submitted to the Higher Education Authority, HEA, which included options. This site had not been included in that. First, I cannot get my head around why, if this was the preferred site, it was not included in that application....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I can understand that. I can understand the reasons for Limerick, as well as for the university. I will come back to the idea I was pursuing. The president submitted a document to the HEA. He was aware that a different, parallel option was available and that it was being actively explored by the university-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: So it happened within that window of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Does Ms Harney think it was the president's intention to submit an alternative report to the HEA? Was the HEA aware that an alternative site was being examined?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Does Ms Harney believe that there was a belief within the governing authority that it was misled?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I accept that but Ms Harney is a member of the governing authority, has a view and is here before the committee. Does she believe the governing authority was given correct information or does she believe it was misled?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022) Paul McAuliffe: That would be the wide view of the-----