Results 14,541-14,560 of 26,537 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: We will go through that correspondence and ask the clerk to include whatever is new in that in the report. We will then circulate a final draft arising from that, so the next step will be to publish the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, we will deal with that now. Item 3A.4 is correspondence, dated 22 May 2015, from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, regarding compliance by UCC with public sector pay policy. That is to be noted and published. That is a short letter in which he informs us that the overpayments or additional payments being made have now ended....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: Is that not what we wanted to know?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: Okay. Item 3A.5 is correspondence, dated 25 May 2015, from the HSE and is a follow-up to our meeting on 23 April 2015, which is to be noted and published. This issue relates to the procurement of investigators and the use of former staff of the health services. We are due to consider a report on this shortly. Has that report been circulated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: Can we determine that it is the final draft?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: In line with that report, I wish to raise an issue that was brought to my attention by way of correspondence, although I do not have it with me. An investigation took place concerning Kilkenny. When the report arising from that investigation was sought, it was not released and neither were the details of the procurement process. Before finalising the report, we might ask that question of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, under procurement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: I understand that, but notwithstanding that, we have to learn from that as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: We can do the final report in the week after next when we are back. We will publish it then. Item 3A.6 is correspondence, dated 27 May 2015, from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, regarding the technological university designation process. That is to be noted and published. We will have a follow-up meeting on this with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: I thought we were going to proceed. Has a date been set for a meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: Item 3A.7 is correspondence, dated 27 May 2015, from Ms Eileen Creedon, Chief State Solicitor, regarding legal costs borne by the State in prosecutions on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is to be noted and published. This correspondence is relevant to our meeting of 18 June 2015. Item 3B concerns individual correspondence. Item 3B.1 is correspondence,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: I think that it would because they were so upfront and upbeat about it this morning. It would be no harm to have them in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: We will ask them in. Item 3B.2 is correspondence, dated 14 May 2015, from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, regarding Gaelscoil Charraig na Siúire. That is to be noted and the reply forwarded to the school. Item 3B.3 is correspondence, dated 29 April 2015, from Mr. John Suttle, director of the Irish National Schools Trust,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: I was aware that they outlined it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: They were brilliant this morning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: We are dealing with item 3B.4, correspondence dated 19 March 2015, from Sean Doran, Howth, Dublin, regarding the Committee on Public Accounts, PAC’s, visit, to be noted and published. We are about to finalise a report on the fishery harbours and Mr. Doran’s comments will be taken into account in that context.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: Correspondence dated 31 March 2015, from Mr. John Corcoran, is in regard to waste of public money in property transactions by the Office of Public Works, OPW. This is to be noted and forwarded to the OPW for a response on the matters raised. This matter was raised through an advertisement in a magazine, which set out several issues and concerns. We will note it but there is no harm in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: The Comptroller and Auditor General does not audit their accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: Maybe the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform would have-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
John McGuinness: On the work programme, we are not sitting next week. The week after that we are meeting Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI. The following week we will meet the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and then the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government on local property tax. Did we not agree to bring in the Higher Education Authority, HEA, and the...