Results 13,001-13,020 of 26,512 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: Officials from the Office of Government Procurement are due to appear before the committee on 19 November. We could, perhaps, ask officials of the Department to also attend on that date.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, as part of that session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: The person who deals specifically with procurement and the accounting officer, Mr. Watt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: No, in general terms the Department and the procurement section work with other Departments and agencies but within Departments and agencies there are procurement processes that are undertaken that would be separate. It would depend on the value of what is being offered.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: Perhaps Mr. McCarthy would comment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: And the improvements necessary.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, we can do that. Correspondence has been received from Mr. Tom Boland, Chief Executive Officer, Higher Education Authority which is a follow-up to our PAC meeting of 24 September. There is quite a lot of detail in the correspondence which members may wish to take up with the HEA when it comes before us again. Correspondence has been received from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes. Correspondence dated 21 October 2015 has been received from the HSE which is a follow-up to our meeting on 23 April 2015, to be noted and published. I ask members to note the date of some of this correspondence from the HSE. The meetings were held on 23 April and just before the today's meeting and late yesterday we received this response from the HSE. That indicates there is a need...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: I also ask him to circulate a note on the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: I also suggest that following our examination of this matter, which is a serious issue for those members who dealt with it at the time, that if the note is unsatisfactory as far as we are concerned then we should set a date for bringing in the Department to explain what has happened here. Correspondence dated 10 October 2015 has been received from Mr. Eugene McKenna, former CEO of WIT...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: We will now have to bring in WIT, the HEA and the Department to deal with the issues that have been raised as part of this correspondence and in the audit certificate of the Comptroller and Auditor General. This project would now be finished at a cost of €9.7 million had the project not been stopped. It will now cost €14 million and funding of €7.5 million is now...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: I wish to discuss No. 4.2. Where does the fault lie in regard to the accounts being certified and then being presented here to us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: Should we ask the Department for an explanation for Nos. 12, 13 and 14? If they have all come together, when ---
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: We will ask the Department the reasons for that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: We note all of these accounts. We will now move on to the work programme. The Dáil is not sitting next week. On 5 November we will meet officials from the Department of Justice and Equality to discuss prisons and the development of prison accommodation in Dublin, under Chapter 9. We will meet representatives from the Office of the Attorney General the following week, then the Office...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: The Waterford issue is ---
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: I did not want to have the two institutes here together because of the proposed amalgamation. I do not want to cast any doubt over that process because the issues are completely different. When the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine appeared before us some time ago, officials committed to providing, within days, a complete rebuttal to each of the issues raised. To date,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: The commitment was given that day. If Deputy Connaughton has another case now, he should refer it to the clerk of the committee so that we can try to get a response to it. The commitment was clearly given by the Secretary General, on foot of a very strong defence of the Department and the special investigations unit, that he would give a complete response. We had been told certain things...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: There is nothing back from the Department on that as yet. We will remind the Department again but the Secretary General will be coming before us in the coming weeks anyway.