Results 861-880 of 5,388 for speaker:John Deasy
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: So in some cases it is cheaper to have an electronic tag.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: The witnesses are saying two different things here. The person who is head of corporate affairs for the Prison Service has just said that in some respects it is a lot cheaper to have somebody electronically monitored than not and Mr. Waters is saying that overall the scale of this will be very expensive. It is included in the bail Bill and will be left up to the Garda to make an application...
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: I will tell you where I am coming from. Operation Thor was announced with a lot of fanfare and with a very small amount of money, when one looks at the overtime bill. Electronic tagging was thrown in as an afterthought after the announcement was made. In my opinion, it was done to quell concerns about the issue arising from bail and burglaries around the country. It was thrown in by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: Why was it announced in the first place a number of days ago? Why was it brought up if that is the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: I am asking the head of the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: The Chairman has asked me to finish. The last thing I have to ask concerns the issue of the foster home that we have dealt with in this committee over the past year. There are policy issues arising from that. It is currently being looked at by a senior counsel. The terms of reference are too narrow. The senior counsel will come back with his report shortly. The third aspect of this is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: I will not come back in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: I was the only one here for most of the time. Give me a break.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin (5 Nov 2015) John Deasy: I thank Mr. Waters for appearing here today. I wish him well. He will be in the Department for a while. I think he knows that himself. I wish him good luck. I thank all the officials for coming in.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (5 Nov 2015)
John Deasy: 155. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for an up-to-date breakdown of crime statistics in the Waterford and Kilkenny-Carlow Garda division, by category of offence; and by individual Garda district. [38917/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (5 Nov 2015)
John Deasy: 156. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current deployment levels of gardaí and civilian staff, by district and by station, within the Waterford and Kilkenny-Carlow Garda division; and the number of gardaí allocated to this division in each of the past five years. [38918/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Allowances (3 Nov 2015)
John Deasy: 879. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for details of the rent allowances paid to public servants and officials of his Department if placed on assignment in the United Kingdom and in mainland Europe; and the way in which these rates for living accommodation are calculated or benchmarked. [37900/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: Does he wish to give evidence to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: We requested that he clarify the reasons he would want to come before the committee. Has he given the clerk an indication as to why? I understand the clerk cannot speak.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: I asked for a departmental note on this matter. There are issues arising with regard to the Office of Government Procurement in particular and to the construction of the tender. We are back into the same territory we were in that only a one year extension is being granted, such that a new tender will have to be drawn up and so on. In my opinion, the Office of Government Procurement did not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: The head of the Office of Government Procurement is the person who needs to come in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: I think we should do that. Is the Chairman agreeable to the departmental officials being asked to attend the meeting on 19 November with the Office of Government Procurement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: Do we know who will be representing the Office of Government Procurement on 19 November?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: I suppose this is something that we can bring up with the HSE. My question is a positive one. We spoke to the Secretary General of the Department of Health a couple of weeks ago. He followed through on what we asked him to do, to firm up what we had proposed in committee here over the past year and to put together an independent panel to deal with reviews and reports that are commissioned...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: Is there any point in asking Carlow IT to come in too, while we are dealing with these matters, or is that something that is completely removed?