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Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (10 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: 431. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged areas scheme payment and a single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52834/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (10 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: 432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on an appeal for a derogation under the disadvantaged areas scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52837/13]

Electricity Infrastructure: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I wish to share time with Deputy Heydon. We will take two minutes each.

Electricity Infrastructure: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: Electricity transmission and distribution networks are a vital element of public infrastructure and that is why the Government is committed to retaining the network in public ownership. Part of the commitment involves ensuring the infrastructure is properly maintained and developed and it is its development that is at the heart of the debate. We all recognise that in order to ensure a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (4 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason when details from an accountant are sufficient for the Revenue Commissioners, such details provided by an accountant regarding the amounts and times a particular employee was paid are not sufficient in terms of proving holiday earnings for students under the Student Universal Support Ireland grant scheme; if his attention has been...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (4 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: 129. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an appeal relating to a disadvantaged area payment over-declaration will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52008/13]

Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this Bill. Recent years have seen a very impressive drop in the number of fatalities on Irish roads and I know Members on every side of the House wish to see that particular graph continue to decline. When one considers that, in 1997, some 472 people lost their lives on Irish roads and the target for 2020 is to reduce that to 124, this means...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I welcome the witnesses. I will try to be brief as much has been discussed. Mr. O'Brien stated what while the investigation of the agencies is ongoing, there are few sanctions open to the HSE if, at the end of the process, a matter has not been resolved. Am I correct that if following the conclusion of the process an issue has not been sorted, one of the sanctions may be a funding cut for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am concerned that if that happens it will be the service user who will be affected most.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: What the HSE is trying to do is cut out top-up or additional payments. Obviously, it is not possible to reduce the pay of any of the CEOs of the organisations concerned. If the HSE cannot do that but proposes to apply a sanction, it will be the service user who will be hit.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: If there are any ramifications for an organisation, they should lie with the chairman of the board who made the decision and the CEO and not with the service user.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I thank the witnesses.

Bond Repayments: Motion [Private Members] (26 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on the motion. I am unable to support the motion, which seeks to stop all interest payments currently being made on sovereign bonds issued in February and which calls on the Government to lobby the European Central Bank for an exemption of the rules of market finance in order that sovereign bonds can be destroyed. However, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: 542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway was refused payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme and the options open to them in terms of appealing the decision in view of the fodder crisis experienced this spring and the difficulty it created for farmers in complying with newly introduced regulations; and if he...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I accept the point, but I imagine those figures would have been reported to the board in the sense that matters had not gone too well and a lot of taxpayers’ money had been lost.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I find it remarkable that the decision to take on the legal firm was left to one individual within the National Gallery. A significant amount of money was spent yet nothing has changed. The firm has remained in situ even though the advice given at the start was incorrect. I accept that not all the circumstances were known at that point. The loss was incurred but nothing has changed. The...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: One thing that has been said is that the gallery is seeking to tender.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: Does Dr. Braiden expect that to happen soon?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (21 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I thank Mr. D’Arcy.