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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I will check it out. If what has been proposed can be accommodated, we can do it. Is the work programme agreed to?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes. We will perhaps have to move around some of the dates, or have a separate sitting. Is that all right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I have to deal with a bit of farce now, but it is no reflection on the clerk. The Committee on Procedure and Privileges has notified us of an issue that I have been asked to bring to the attention of members. At a meeting on 1 July the Dáil Committee on Procedure and Privileges, CPP, considered the matter of clerks addressing or being asked to address committees during public session....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: He will not be able to talk to members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: That is fair advice. I will hold onto it firmly and hope the clerk will co-operate with us. It is an incredible farce. We have a draft committee report on the purchase of the Irish Glass Bottle Company site. It will be circulated tomorrow. We have agreed our agenda for the meeting on 1 October 2015. It concerns NAMA's financial statements.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: To confirm, a senior counsel has been appointed to look into the matter. However, there is a narrow remit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I understand the remit covers only the issue of procurement, but the committee had asked previously that the remit be expanded to take in other matters. That is still its view which we should reiterate in writing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: The correspondence that has just come to us refers to a period of four weeks. That has to do with the narrow remit. What we are asking for is a broadening of the remit to take in the issues we addressed. We will ask again that they be addressed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: There is to be a draft report tomorrow.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: On the details raised by Deputy John Deasy, we can first seek a note to inform members and receive some background information. We will come back to it next week. There are three matters on the agenda for today’s hearing. The first concerns GMIT, the second the Kelly report and the third the financial statements of the HEA. If we can structure our meeting to deal with each of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Or earlier, as the case may be.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: As it is now 11 a.m., it will more than likely be that time, or near enough to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones as interference affects the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and continue to do so, they are entitled thereafter...
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Mr. Boland?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: And Mr. Jim Fennell, president of the GMIT?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: And we have John Burke from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Can I ask Mr. McCarthy to make his opening statement please?
- Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Ó Foghlú. Can his statement be published?