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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: No. 4.25 is Waterford Institute of Technology.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: All right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I support what Deputy Deasy said, particularly in respect of Professor Byrne and the Quigley report. While it may be worth the Comptroller and Auditor General's while to look at it, it is also something the committee needs to look at, because it was at a public hearing of this committee that, if one wants to measure the reputational damage to Professor Byrne, many of the comments came about...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: In respect of the University of Limerick, the HEA will appear before us today. These matters are relevant and can be raised. I suggest that the Deputy seek the answers there first. After that, I agree with him that there is a need to follow through on some of the issues that have been raised with the agencies about which he speaks to determine what action has been taken, what remedies have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: To put it in context, each member present can think of projects in his or her constituency - I can think of one in County Carlow that would cost €320,000 to deliver - which are being refused the capital support to do that, yet compensation in one hospital was €389,000, in a second hospital it was €200,000, and for the HSE it was €9 million. How many projects...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Mr. McCarthy, you suggest it is systemic issue. That is a system failure but behind a system failure, is there not a person, an individual or a manager? Therefore, it is not a system failure but a failure of management. I refer to when one has a manager who understands the procurement process - and Mr. Watt constantly explains to the committee through his Department how significant it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: Is that not shocking?
- 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.