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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates Applications (7 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a primary medical certificate will be granted on appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [27123/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Investigations (7 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to a report (details supplied) on the allegations made by a whistleblower with regard to corporate income tax, if she will confirm the tender process by which the company was selected; the cost of the report; if the full report will be published; the cost of the legal advice in respect of the report and any other matter relative to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Are the minutes of our meeting of 25 June 2015 agreed? Agreed. Are there matters arising from the minutes?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Arising from the correspondence received on the matter and the suggestion that a senior counsel be appointed, it is clear that the investigation is to be limited to procurement issues. I agree with Deputy Deasy that we should write to the Minister to suggest that, given the circumstances and range of the complaints involved, the senior counsel's investigation should extend beyond the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: It would be an interesting place.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: No. 3A.2 is correspondence from the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, as a follow-up to our meeting of 11 June 2015, to be noted and published. No. 3A.4 is correspondence received from Mr. Paul Quinn, chief procurement officer, regarding our request for him to meet the Small Firms Association and the Irish School Arts Supply...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: The correspondence, dated 26 June 2015, states: "My office intends to meet with the ISASF shortly." That is not what we agreed. We agreed that the procurement officer would meet them as soon as possible after our meeting. That was my understanding of it and that has not happened. We should respond to Mr. Quinn saying it was our understanding that he would meet the ISASF pretty much...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: -----and if he will meet the group as soon as possible.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Yes. We move on to individual correspondence. No. 3B.1 relates to payments to the Order of Malta by Horse Racing Ireland, which is to be noted and published and a copy sent to the person who wrote to us in the first place. No. 3B.2 is correspondence, dated 2015, from Mr. John Quigley from County Kildare, regarding the children's rights referendum campaign. I note his comments....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: The other statements and reports, under Nos. 4.2 , 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5, are all to be noted. With regard to the work programme, next week we will have the Cork VEC report and the financial statements of the Higher Education Authority, HEA, with Mr. Ó Foghlú, the HEA and the accounting officers for GMIT and Cork VEC appearing before the committee. The other issues that were...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Yes. I spoke to the clerk to the committee about this earlier. They said they would reply to us within a week about goods that were confiscated and tell the committee why they were confiscated. In cases in which no further legal action is to be taken, they were to tell us where the goods are and whether they will be returned, or whether the value of the goods would be returned. They said...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: That is right. Last week we agreed to send the transcript of the meeting to all the individuals concerned in order that they could have the opportunity to reply. There are a number of other minor issues that I would like to mention.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Even this morning, under correspondence item No. 4.3, Mary Immaculate College is instanced as not complying with national procurement guidelines. It runs right across every agency and Department and it is an issue that we must deal with.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: We want to wait for the Comptroller and Auditor General to come back with the report and then we will be able to deal with it comprehensively. That is the plan.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: When we get the report next week on oversight we can then decide what members want to do about it. We have received a query in correspondence about a file on Temple Bar Properties and the Viking Centre. Is that to do with local government?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: What about the European funding of it? Where projects are funded by local government funding and European money, who-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Does that mean if it came from Europe through the Department to the local authority for that particular project, the Comptroller and Auditor General would see it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: To get information on the project, how the money was spent and whether it was spent correctly, to whom does one write? Is it the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: I ask the members to agree that we will get some information on this project. A file was sent to us a while ago and the person who sent it has asked us to look at it again. We may have dealt with it at some stage but I have it here. The other issue I wanted to ask about was the contract being put in place for the construction of the Luas extension. Can we get a note on the process? The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Not yet. I have just received it, but I will circulate it.