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Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Has Mr. Griffin a breakdown for the 2,800 clients? Can he state whether 30 letters were sent to Kilkenny and 20 to Donegal?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Can he get that for me? The "schizophrenia across government", as Mr. Griffin described it, is causing havoc in terms of business for post offices. Mr. Griffin can imagine the position of a postmaster in an office where customers come in waving the letter asking whether they now have to open a bank account, against the backdrop of a history of closures in the post office network, despite...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Mr. Griffin might classify it as 2,800 out of 800,000. Without doubt, it sounds small but one must understand that it is seen as a threat by the individual post offices whose clients have received the letter, against the history of the closures of post offices. Even today, as we discuss this, we do not know how much An Post has invested in broadband to ensure each post office is at the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: May I ask about Inland Fisheries Ireland? Inland Fisheries Ireland would be responsible for the rivers and the condition of those rivers, the fishing and the application of legislation that applies to the protection officers on the rivers, is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: What role do you have then in regard to reporting to the EPA, where you find that a river is heavily polluted by local authorities discharging effluent directly into the river? What action will your Department take with the EPA?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Numerous reports have been made in regard to pollution in the rivers Nore, Suir and Barrow, particularly the River Nore, and that pollution has worsened. Knowing this, it seems the State agencies stand by and no action is taken because it is a local authority. You are now being told, very publicly, about a particular river. I want to know what action the Department will take or is it a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: If Inland Fisheries Ireland, or any other body, has made a complaint to the EPA regarding river pollution caused by local authorities, and if the EPA has acted on that by issuing instructions to the local authorities to clean up their act and it does not happen, will Inland Fisheries Ireland then insist that the EPA brings the local authorities to court, or penalise or sanction them in some...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Have any prosecutions been taken?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: If your Department, under Inland Fisheries Ireland, pursues a complaint with the EPA about the condition of a particular river, then surely one could expect the EPA to take an action. If the local authorities, or anybody else, were found to be at fault and no action was taken, then surely it would fall back to Inland Fisheries to ask why no action was taken. Can you tell this committee, in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Okay. Can you give the committee some information about patrols on the rivers and the protections involved? I have received many complaints from fisherman and organisations about fish being taken illegally - it is obvious to the protection officers - but there seems to be a complete lack of numbers available to Inland Fisheries Ireland to protect rivers to the extent that it should.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Do you think it is adequate or have the numbers dropped in recent years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Will you let the committee have a note on that and how it is proceeding generally?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Are there boards, or is there a board for Inland Fisheries Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: One board?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: How many people are on the Inland Fisheries Ireland board now?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Is it the appropriate mix of gender and so on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Can we find that out? Is there an audit committee also attached to these boards? Could we have the details of both? Do the boards own properties?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Have the various titles and leases, etc. associated with each property been examined?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: There is no concern about leases or titles. Everything is okay and in order. On the other side, with respect to harbours, we had issues with respect to properties, etc. I am asking out of interest in the fishery organisation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: The inland fisheries section is audited separately so we can bring in the agency.