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Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: Ms Cronin can come in if she wants rather than scribbling away. He will not be able to read it. This is her moment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: I thank Ms Cronin. I call Deputy Dowds.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Griffin for coming.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: 114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny under the carer's allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3121/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (26 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: 124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a review under the invalidity pension scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3255/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (26 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: 257. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 310 of 17 November 2015, if payment to the recruits will stand as at 23 September 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2933/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: A number of matters need to be finalised today to finish the business of the Committee of Public Accounts as we come to the end of our term of office. We are meeting a delegation from Debt and Development Commission Ireland later. We acceded to its request for a meeting following receipt of its position paper in late 2015. Are the minutes of the meeting of 10 December 2015 agreed? Agreed....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: It is noted in the correspondence later on. I will deal with the correspondence received since our meeting on 10 December 2015. At this stage, I wish to note correspondence that has just come from the HSE today. I will give members an opportunity to reflect on it before we deal with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: No. 3A.1 relates to correspondence from the HSE, dated 10 December 2015. It concerns the report on the foster home and we will deal with that with the issue we have just discussed later. No. 3A.2 relates to correspondence, dated 8 December 2015, received from Professor Andrew Deeks, President of UCD, and concerns the UCD financial statements 2013. This is to be noted and published. No....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: No. 3A.5 relates to correspondence, dated 23 December 2015, received from Mr. Aidan O’Driscoll, Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, concerning the milk superlevy. This is to be noted and published. No. 3A.6 is correspondence, dated 17 December 2015, received from Ms Eileen Creedon, Chief State Solicitor, and is a follow-up on our meeting on 12...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: Is that agreed? Agreed. I should mention, regarding the Fannin case, the matter relevant to Mr. Cantwell, the North Meath Community Development Association and the general correspondence we have had regarding CIT, WIT and the other third level colleges, that the file on each one should be sent to the Taoiseach for information purposes. Before an election is called, the House will be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: We could forward the letter to the Department and to Revenue, if that is necessary, and ask for a note on the matter. Following that, we will have to forward it to the new committee. My understanding is that when the work of this committee is interrupted by an election, the newly appointed committee can return to the work that was being done and continue from where the previous committee...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: Exactly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: We can make specific reference to it in the minutes of this meeting so that, again, it is not lost.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: The clerk can write to the Accounting Officer and send a transcript of the issue you have raised. The same applies to the appointment of arbitrators in the case of Padmore & Barnes in Kilkenny; they were told they would have to wait 12 months. That delay does occur, and maybe the Department should be made aware of it. Perhaps a letter to the appropriate Departments would place it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: Added to that is the fact that NAMA had said it was going to make the funding available as well if----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: If any of them required work, NAMA said it would make funding available.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: Because NAMA was before us and it is a Department issue as well, maybe we can ask the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government for a response along the lines you have requested. It is an issue that will remain relevant after the election and will certainly be part of the work of the next Government also. We can do that. Did Deputy Deasy want to contribute on the HSE...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: I will add my voice. The whistleblower in this case made a disclosure to me and, in turn, I brought it to the attention of Pearse Street Garda station, which I was obliged to do. I have had one telephone call since making that public disclosure. Following that, I met a local sergeant who told me that there was no body of evidence on which to bring forward a prosecution. At least, that is...