Results 5,381-5,400 of 11,579 for speaker:Colm Burke

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Were there other projects where property was acquired? Was it satisfied that all the boxes were ticked regarding valuations for previous projects?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I wish to ask about long-term planning in the university. Does Professor Mey feel further development is required but that it has been restricted as a result of what has occurred in this case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: It would be helpful to the committee if we could find out the kind of time period for which the university is restricted from publishing its report. Are we talking about three months, six months, 12 months or 18 months?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: In the 2020 report, it is stated the university employs 1,868 people and that its subsidiaries employ 292 people. Are the witnesses satisfied that there are adequate checks and balances to ensure that those subsidiaries are complying with all the rules and regulations relating to employment, etc.? What is the connection?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: The witnesses are satisfied the university is protected with the checks and balances in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. McGarr can deal with the issues in replies to questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for making themselves available and for the contribution that they are making to this debate. My colleague referred to Mr. Stephen Dodd SC's opinion. This is about the compulsory purchase issue. Mr. Dodd SC, in page 62 of his opinion, states: Insofar as the State proposes to compulsory acquire the lands, the appropriate legislation is under the Health Act 1947 which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Is Mr. McGarr now saying that if Mr. Dodd SC is saying this in his opinion, Mr. McGarr is saying that the State, in real terms, is not in the driving seat in relation to compulsorily acquiring?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: What is Mr. McGarr's view? Does he think the State would succeed in a compulsory purchase of this land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: But Mr. McGarr is here giving a legal advice. One of the issues being put out is that we should not be taking a lease. This is something Mr. McGarr is saying, that we should not be taking a lease.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: But if we cannot acquire by way of compulsory purchase the freehold interest, what is the next best option?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. McGarr should be clear now on this. Under this senior counsel opinion, he is saying that the State may not - I am not saying it would not - be able to acquire the lands under a compulsory purchase acquisition.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Can I will move on to the issue about the lease because Mr. McGarr referred to it in his presentation about the first schedule?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I am wonder if Mr. McGarr has the lease in front of him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Under the words "FIRST SCHEDULE", there is, in brackets, "the Premises".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. McGarr is saying that, in fact, St. Vincent's will own the premises?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: But does Mr. McGarr understand the word "demise"? The word "demise" is, in other words, we are giving. Instead of transferring, we are demising. We are giving. The lease states that the agreement "HEREBY DEMISES unto the Tenant ALL THAT the Premises ..." The premises are the premises described in the first schedule.