Results 13,801-13,820 of 26,804 for speaker:John McGuinness
- 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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: We will have a meeting with NAMA next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: We can meet them after or before the meeting. I will ask the clerk to make contact with their clerk.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)
John McGuinness: I am not sure about the protocol, but we can check it.
- 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.