Results 6,561-6,580 of 7,283 for speaker:Josepha Madigan
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: I appreciate the witness clarifying that. The Department does not wish to limit itself and it is encouraging that it is using innovation to obtain funds. With regard to the further education and training courses, outside of apprenticeships, what mechanisms are in place to ensure we are getting best value for money given the large amount we spend on these courses? We should bear in mind...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: Does the Department have the report?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: How have the businesses reacted to having to pay more? Are they co-operative in that regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: The action plan for education was launched in September 2016. It is a very ambitious action plan. I think there are 139 specific actions in it with timelines and identification of responsibility. What will be the main obstacles and challenges in delivering that? I wonder how multidenominational patronage will work out. I think five to eight schools per year have that because we know that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: How on target has the action plan been since September?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: A total of 130 have been established so far.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: Why does Mr. Ó Foghlú say that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: I note that only 20% of schools are over-subscribed. I would have thought it was more than that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: I note from the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General that the Department made a settlement of €1,359,358 with the Revenue Commissioners in March 2015 relating to the period, 2010-13. Why was the Department not tax compliant originally in respect of the payments involved? Were penalties or interest included in the settlement? What measures have been taken to ensure the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: How much was the interest?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: What was the Department not tax compliant originally in respect of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: Is that like self-assessment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: The Department thought that they were making their own tax returns.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: So it was a miscommunication.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: Have measures been taken to address that in the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Josepha Madigan: I thank Mr. Ó Foghlú for clarifying that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I thank Mr. O'Brien for coming in this afternoon. Forgive me if I am confused about this and I ask the Chair to correct me if I am wrong - I think Mr. O'Brien said earlier that the Garda was first contacted in February 2015. Is that not correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: That is about the reports.
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I am sorry to cut across Mr. O'Brien but what about Grace? When was that case reported to the Garda?
- Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Am I correct in saying that it was as a result of a protected disclosure made to the previous Committee of Public Accounts, of which I was not a member, on 5 March 2016, that on 6 March 2016 the Garda was contacted about the treatment of Grace?