Results 12,621-12,640 of 26,534 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Are the minutes of our meeting on 12 November 2015 agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising from the minutes? There are no matters arising. The next item is correspondence received since our meeting on Thursday 12 November 2015. Correspondence was received from accounting officers and or Ministers. Correspondence received from the HSE dated 11 November 2015 is a follow-up from our...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The committee will set it out in context and report for the next meeting. Item No. 3A.6 is correspondence dated 18 November 2015 which was received from Mr. Joe Hamill, Secretary General, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, regarding the air service for the Aran Islands and the national monument at 14 - 17 Moore Street. It is to be noted and published. The matter of the air...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: I believe that Mr. Hamill is currently recovering from surgery.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: I will now turn to items of individual correspondence. Correspondence dated 11 November 2015 was received from the HSE, which is a follow-up from our meeting on 22 October 2015. It relates to a payment to a bed and breakfast accommodation. It is noted that I raised this with the HSE and I wish to reject their response entirely. I could have obtained that information myself from the HSE....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Does Deputy Costello want the committee to write once again to the Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: We can raise it today with the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The committee can make the recommendations or suggestions. It is then for Government to decide what changes are necessary in legislation. There is only so far this committee can go.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The committee has set it out in a report and it awaits a response. When a response is received the committee can deal with it then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The Deputy can ask for it today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is responsible for this area and the committee can ask it directly. The Deputies can pursue the matter with the Secretary General today. I will now return to individual correspondence. Item No. 3B.3 is correspondence, dated 13 November 2015, received from Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General, the Department of Environment, Community and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Deficits have been incurred by Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in each of the past three years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: What kind of figures are we talking about in terms of the deficits?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: When Mr. McCarthy says that is happening on a going concern basis, is he expressing concern about-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Can that same analysis be applied to Bord na gCon?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: I refer to the analysis that it is just a concern and is not-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Is it not the case that it is not a good thing-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: -----that an organisation would wonder at the end of every 12 months whether it will be in business at the end of the following 12 months? It is asking whether it can keep going over the next 12 months.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: When it asks that question, or is asked that question, does it set out a plan that convinces the Comptroller and Auditor General that it can do this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: If the Comptroller and Auditor General draws attention to this in the context of an organisation's 2014 accounts, when will the organisation have to submit a plan to him to convince him that it is possible for it to continue?