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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) Simon Harris: Yes, supplier and downstream.
- 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) Simon Harris: I want to explore the issue of using private companies to manage the records of one of these programmes, most specifically the SR Technics one. The Comptroller and Auditor General's report states the records for the SR Technics programme were collated by a private company. The next point outlines how there can be difficulties in that there may be long periods before valid records are...
- 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) Simon Harris: Consider the use of private colleges to provide course programmes for people availing of intervention. It refers to courses which are not available within the public system. Can Mr. Ó Foghlú expand on what such courses are?
- 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) Simon Harris: I thank Mr. Ó Foghlú and Mr. O'Toole and their teams for being here today. In my questions, I will focus on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, and Deputy Nolan on FÁS. If I can make one comment, I acknowledge what Mr. O'Toole acknowledges in his statement. We have had many a stormy meeting with FÁS at this committee, in my time and previously, but as FÁS...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: I ask that we would have a week to consider this and that we would take this matter at the start of our meeting next Thursday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: Yes. I would like if we could deal with it when dealing with correspondence next Thursday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: I wish to raise a minor point which I raised with the Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government last week. It highlights yet again our lack of oversight of local authorities and I want to place it on the record of the committee, especially when we see media reports in The Sunday Timesof council chambers under a local government reform programme...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Alternative Energy Projects (4 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: 179. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the current status of the foreshore lease granted in respect of the 220 turbine wind farm at Codling Bank off the coast of County Wicklow; when same was granted; the process undertaken when granting such a foreshore lease; if his Department expects construction works to begin in the near...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licences Appeals (4 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: 180. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the controls his Department can exert to review or rescind a previously granted foreshore lease; the situations in which such a review may occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32785/13]
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: Stick to the script.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (2 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: I very much welcome the advancement of a Seanad referendum, which was a commitment the Taoiseach personally, and both parties in government, gave in advance of the election and I am pleased to see it progressing. The Taoiseach spoke about the establishment of a referendum commission. It is important that the commission is up and running at an early stage but considering the number of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (2 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: 12. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to hold a referendum to abolish Seanad Éireann. [31844/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (2 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: 393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that have been taken to ensure that the delays encountered by students applying for the third level grant have been rectified; the additional resources that have been allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32162/13]
- Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Jun 2013)
Simon Harris: I wish to share time with Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick.
- Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Jun 2013)
Simon Harris: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I will always remember, a number of years ago when I was a teenager growing up in Greystones, attending a presentation by the then Governor of Mountjoy Prison, Mr. John Lonergan. He said that if he was handed a map of Dublin city, he would be able to identify five small areas from which he was likely to see the bulk of the population of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Simon Harris: I have never corresponded directly with the EPA on this issue, but in conversations with others and correspondence I have reviewed people talked about the original waste permit having been lodged with the EPA and, therefore, the EPA being aware of the issues involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Simon Harris: That is perfect. My understanding of the EPA's involvement or knowledge is exactly as Ms Burke said, that it hold a registers that indicates that this permit has been issued. Therefore, if it was destroyed, removed or disappeared, it would still be lodged in her offices. The Ballybeg issue concerns me, but the broader point is that these are serious issues and allegations and everybody...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
Simon Harris: I do not wish to delay the meeting. To draw this matter to a conclusion, when former Deputy Liz McManus raised it in the House, the Minister of State of the day said the Department had arranged for all departmental records recently released under the Freedom of Information Acts to be furnished to the then cathaoirleach of Wicklow County Council with the strong recommendation that they be...