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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: That is correct. Maybe when Professor Brennan comes before the committee to discuss the National College of Art and Design we can extend our questions to cover the past.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: That is the get-out clause.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The Deputy might get a chance to look at those.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Could the Clerk circulate the note from the last meeting about the letter and the note about the accounts for the information of members? I will now turn to Teagasc. Attention is drawn to its disclosure of a settlement with the Revenue Commissioners in relation to the non-payment of VAT amounting to €399,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The disclosure was its own?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Would Teagasc be similar to a company, or similarly the HSE, it that it makes returns and is inspected by the Revenue Commissioners?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: We will note all those accounts. With regard to the work programme of the committee, in the next few weeks we are to meet with the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Attorney General, the Office of the Chief State Solicitor, the Office of Government Procurement, Bord na gCon and the Department of Finance, and on 10 December we will meet Waterford Institute of Technology and Cork Institute...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: That is fine. We will ask the Clerk to flag that to the office so that its representatives are absolutely clear about what is expected when they come here. Deputy Connaughton raised an issue with regard to the meeting between the Department's procurement section and the group that came before the committee. Did we get a report back on that? I think they met one group but did not meet the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: So you will raise that at the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: The work programme is agreed. I will now turn to any other business.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: On the day of the committee meeting NAMA representatives had a list but they did not provide it. It was to be provided to the committee the following week. There is a list in front of us on the screen-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: -----which sets out the different figures for you.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Are you looking for the 6,500 houses that were offered and refused?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: We also asked NAMA for its list and did not receive it. We did not get either piece of information, so we will remind them again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: At the end of the meeting with NAMA I gave the representatives a list of queries about Project Jewel. Deputy Deasy attended that meeting. We toured the site and saw it at first hand. I asked NAMA to answer the questions submitted to us by representatives of families but it did not do so, except to say that the site is sold. Some of the questions relate to the attitude of NAMA towards this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: We got a protected disclosure relating to the University of Limerick and we are not finished with that yet. I understand that an explanation was given as to how those people were employed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: We are not finished with that yet and will process it further.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: It is a Limerick thing. Is there any other business? No. We will move to the main part of today's meeting, which is to deal with the accounts of the Department of Justice and Equality. I invite the witnesses to attend.
- 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 McGuinness: Today we will deal with Vote 21: Prisons, Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality and Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin. Before we begin our meeting, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of...
- 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 McGuinness: I ask the witnesses from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to introduce themselves.