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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: It is July since they were here and it was promised within a week. This feeds in to the whole issue of poor responses from Departments and agencies to the committee. It simply has to change. We are in the dying moments of this game but I would encourage any future members of the Committee of Public accounts to be absolutely vigilant in their work and intolerant of the types of responses we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: We would have sent our recommendations to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for the line Minister. The Department will appear before the committee next week. That correspondence, along with the fact that we have been waiting some time for that response from the Department, should be raised with the Department. It would be appropriate then to deal with that correspondence....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: It is before the Seanad.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: We will take it up next week as an agenda item.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Did the Deputy give some names to the clerk?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: We can set a date to meet those individuals before the Christmas break. We will invite the witnesses in now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: I remind members, witnesses and those in the Gallery to turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. I draw the attention of witnesses to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: I also welcome Mr Barry Donoghue, Accounting Officer of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: We are also joined by Mr. Dermot Quigley, principal officer, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The witnesses are all very welcome. I invite the Comptroller and Auditor General to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: I thank Mr. O'Daly and call Mr. Donoghue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: Thank you very much, Mr. Donoghue. With regard to your final point, what is the difference in salary?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: That would be €60,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: The starting salary for a solicitor in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is €30,000-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: -----and for a trainee solicitor-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: Yes. I invite Ms Eileen Creedon to make her opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: I thank Ms Creedon. May we publish the witnesses' statements?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: The witnesses may give a brief response.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: Before Deputy Collins makes that point, can the witnesses give us a breakdown of the debt figure of €9.7 million in terms of the number of years and the various amounts that are owed over a period?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: Can Ms Creedon let us have that, please?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
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Vote 6: Office of the Chief State Solicitor (12 Nov 2015) John McGuinness: On that last question, there are three different agencies or arms of legal services to the State. We can generally take the different figures and quantify how much the legal costs are in layman's terms to the State. Did the Attorney General's office ever look at the costs incurred by all of the Government agencies and Departments or even just the Departments with a view to streamlining the...