Results 1,481-1,500 of 5,388 for speaker:John Deasy
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) John Deasy: I mean as part of the response to the committee. I have made a fair point which deserves a response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Mar 2015)
John Deasy: That is a flimsy excuse to give for not coming in. From what the Chairman said, we can take up the offer to attend. Are they willing to come in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Mar 2015)
John Deasy: We should ask them in and take them up on the offer to come in. Let us not beat around the bush. We can ask them questions directly. If the representative comes back and says that he does not have the information, we will make our minds up then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Mar 2015)
John Deasy: I refer to the note we received in regard to a different issue. Does the Chairman want to bring it up now or will he wait?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Mar 2015)
John Deasy: The most worrying element of this information is the potential conflict of interest that arises. Having recently dealt with two or three cases involving sexual or physical abuse of people in care, I find it very worrying that someone who may be contracted by the HSE could potentially have a conflict of interest. One of the tasks of the committee will be to ascertain how widespread is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Mar 2015)
John Deasy: How many of the contracts awarded by the HSE in the past ten years went to former staff? That is the simple question we should put to the HSE in the meantime. We could then take the matter from there. That is an easy question that can be answered immediately.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Mar 2015)
John Deasy: We need to find out if certain contracts were tendered.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John Deasy: I hope the Chairman will give me some latitude on this. This document arrived in our pigeonholes this morning. It is the annual progress report on the public service reform plan from Mr. Watt's Department. I find the section on performance and accountability, local government, interesting because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John Deasy: Local government, and it is slightly non-germane to what this meeting is about, but I will get to that. Considering the comments that Mr. Watt's boss, the Minister, made in recent days about the abolition of town councils being a mistake, the accountability and performance part of this document refers to the National Oversight and Audit Commission for Local Government, which undermines that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John Deasy: One does lead to the other.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John Deasy: I understand that; that is exactly what I am getting at. Mr. Watt knows that we have talked about rates during the years. It is devolving power to local authorities so far as revenue collection in their own areas is concerned. Mr. Watt is announcing that this is happening around the country, but will he talk about the quality of the service provided, regardless of whether there are revenue...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John Deasy: Yes. May we have a short passage on what thematic reviews of local authority function mean? The only point I am making, even though I might agree with the Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin, is that there is a slight contradiction and a subtle undermining of what those on the commission might be tasked to do, while at the same time saying the abolition of town councils was a mistake. Spelling...
- Dairy Sector: Statements (4 Mar 2015)
John Deasy: I appreciate the willingness to have this debate on the Irish dairy sector. It is very hard to encapsulate in ten minutes what is going on because a great deal is happening. The Minister was struggling to cover everything given the amount of information on what is going on in the industry right now. Deputy Creed and I asked for this debate because even though an enormous shift will...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
John Deasy: Deputy Adams is stealing Deputy Micheál Martin's line. He is plagiarising his ideas.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
John Deasy: Is Deputy Martin criticising him or standing by him?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (3 Mar 2015)
John Deasy: 309. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the protocol by which persons may gain recourse to compensation for losses, or the payment of costs, arising from damage caused to their property by members of An Garda Síochána acting in the course of their duties. [8802/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)
John Deasy: The Chairman said the figures do not correlate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)
John Deasy: From memory they were fairly similar, but is there a wide variance between what Mr. Boland has given us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)
John Deasy: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Feb 2015)
John Deasy: I was looking for the correspondence from the Secretary General of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; I do not know if it was sent to me. The Clerk to the Committee might remember this. I asked the Secretary General a question specifically about Department's specific plans to memorialise the people who died in 1916. The Department spent a good deal of money in 2014. I...