Results 16,181-16,200 of 26,825 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: IDA Ireland has listed nine new advanced technology buildings in different locations. Will Mr. Shanahan, by way of a submission to the committee, give us the criteria behind the selection of those areas and tell us what brought them across the line? I am looking at 2011, 2012 and 2013 in the context of jobs created and am bearing in mind that the IDA proposes to put one of the buildings in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Does Mr. Shanahan's reference to advance solutions mean buildings?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: I want to argue this out because there are many counties that have suitable buildings available. They have not been encouraged to provide even more buildings because they were not sure that they would secure tenants for them. I am particularly taken by the fact that Mr. Shanahan has said that the IDA would meet county councils and so forth. One such council wrote to the IDA on 10 October...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: I would still suggest that the regions are coming from a very low base. There is no doubt that the IDA is successful in attracting companies to come to the country. However, once the companies identify Ireland as a place in which to set up, what happens then and who influences that company? They may be influenced by the capital and so on, but others are not. I have been out in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: It is €4 billion.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: The Deputy should realise that this may not be a matter for Mr. Shanahan.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: We could write to the Minister and address to him the questions the Deputy has just put to Mr. Shanahan.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: The report indicates that the transaction included three grant approvals totalling €8.7 million and three grant payments totalling €7.3 million. Deputy Ross is seeking details in that regard. Perhaps Mr. Shanahan will make it available to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland had a joint office in Taiwan, a market of 24 million people. Now, however, neither organisation has any representation there. Some 16 other European countries have representation in Taiwan. Why was Enterprise Ireland's and IDA Ireland's representation withdrawn?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Why is it that 16 other European countries believe it is important to have offices in Taiwan? Those countries generate trade to and from Taiwan. They have an immediate market there in view of the fact that the population of Taiwan is 24 million. Taiwan has protocols and cross-Strait agreements with China. Everybody else deals with Taiwan. In fact, New Zealand, which is in direct...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: I am sorry to cut across Mr. Sherry, but I know all that. My question is about Taiwan and a market of 24 million people. One can go there and be served New Zealand lamb and Scotch whisky but one would find it hard to get anything to do with Ireland. The complaint being made is that there is no presence. One cannot work a market unless there is someone in it. If I am not mistaken, there...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: There was a presence in Taiwan and funding for it was stopped. The other 16 countries in Europe who are there do not understand why that was done. That is their view on it. I am getting the view of IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland today. I believe the agencies should fund an office in Taiwan because of the volume of goods and services being requested and being made and delivered from...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Normally we would ask for a break, but I think we will keep going.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: On the Enterprise Ireland accounts, communication and IT costs were €2.6 million in 2012 and €2.688 million in 2013. What does that figure cover?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Are there once-off costs in there, no?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: So it runs at that type of money each year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Please. There are professional fees in there of €2.3 million, and it was €2.1 million in 2012. What professional fees? What does that cover?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Could we have a breakdown of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: Presumably, that all goes through the usual procurement channels.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) John McGuinness: If you could let us have the type of companies you are dealing with and the value of the contracts, that would be helpful.