Results 13,521-13,540 of 26,537 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Does no one else feel the shock in the system? For example, in Volkswagen, Mr. so-and-so who is on a huge salary now has a huge problem. As this huge problem has hit his company, he resigns. Here we are in the public sector with this huge problem and systemic failure and the person who is on the huge salary will not resign. Perhaps that is what it has come to but that is a policy matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: There is a triple whammy because there is another one here, Tusla, where, in the context of procurement, not only did it have to spend €210,000 in compensation for late payment in respect of 2013 but there was also a €1.6 million error in the procurement process. The organisation got it wrong and it cost €1.6 million so that is €1.6 million straight down the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: So it does not know whether it got the same thing again, so it is a third.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Is that across every Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: We can indeed. Representatives from the Department will be here on 22 October. I asked the question because it also relates to the Department of Education and Skills. We received a report a short time ago about serious allegations against the Cork Institute of Technology, CIT. My understanding was that the report was so heavily redacted that one could not make out any answer to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: What about Galway VEC?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: In Cork as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: It was Wexford. We will move on to No. 4.45.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: This fits neatly into the other audits. It is just more of the same.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: We can address it later on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: There might be vacancies after the election for those who are looking. We have now dealt with Limerick.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: That is another institute that has a question mark over its ability to operate as a going concern.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: The same could be said of Limerick.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: We will move on to the Grangegorman development. Is that a separate agency?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: The last one is No. 4.59-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: We can do that in the context of our work programme, which is next on our agenda. Next week we will hear from NAMA. Have we invited members of the Northern Ireland finance committee to attend?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Can members of this committee receive the transcripts from its meetings in order that they know what went on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: We have invited representatives of the Department of Health to attend the following week. Can we agree to have the meeting with NAMA next week and the meeting with the Department of Health the following week? We will look at the schedule after that in terms of what is set.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: We will notify it that the meeting is taking place next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: We can invite its representatives and meet them afterwards.