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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Okay. As I said, we are still following up on that and we will report back to the committee as soon as we have a reply from the Department. No. 4 is reports, statements and accounts received since our meeting on 6 November 2014. They are listed from No. 4.1. Is there an issue in regard to the Institute of Technology, Tralee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Again, there is an issue with a sports complex in Waterford. There are serious questions about money and the completion of that project, and how it reached the stage of commitments being given and so on. That issue was also raised in the documents which were sent to me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: There is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: No. 4.3 refers to University College Cork and is a qualified audit opinion arising from a disagreement on future pension funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: We will come back to that. Nos. 4.4 and 4.5 are okay. No. 4.6-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: No. 5 refers to the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, where the council paid the director an allowance of €17,400 without sanction.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: That is the only issue. There is also a question mark over some of the public procurement. No. 5.2 refers to Bord Bia. We will examine the issue of the pension liability with the HEA in January and we will seek a note in resect of this spend. Maybe we should ask for a note from the Institute of Technology, Tralee and Cork Institute of Technology regarding their merger and the costs...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: We will take into account the request from Deputy Deasy. Is there any other business? We dealt with everything earlier on. Can we agree the agenda for Thursday, 27 November, will be the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the development of Limerick greyhound stadium, subject to clarification with the Revenue Commissioners?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: I request that the witnesses attend the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) John McGuinness: We are now dealing with No. 7, the appropriation accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General for Vote 22 - Courts Service. In welcoming the witnesses, I apologise for the delay in inviting them in. We had other matters that we had to clarify before this business. Before we begin, I remind members, witnesses and those in the Visitors' Gallery to please turn off their mobile phones. By...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 6 November 2014 agreed to? Agreed. We will deal with correspondence received since our meeting on Thursday, 6 November 2014. No. 3A is correspondence received from Accounting Officers and Ministers. We have received correspondence from Mr. Tom O'Malley, Secretary General, Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, regarding a briefing on the development...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Are we getting a report from it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Therefore, we will not be investigating it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: No. 3B.5 is correspondence, dated 14 November 2014, received from Dr. Michael Murphy, President of UCC, regarding the dispute about subcontracting works. The correspondence is to be noted. Direct payments by the university to a subcontractor are not a matter for us to consider. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Does the Deputy wish to comment on the matter?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: We could probably bring it up then. We could give representatives of the HEA notice of the issue to be discussed when they come in January.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: I understand it does.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: We should consider the spirit of the legislation. It is to sort out this and similar problems.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: We will obtain a note on the matter. We will have an opportunity to discuss it with the representatives of the Higher Education Authority in January.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Nos. 3B.6 and 3B.9 are copies of replies sent from the Local Government Audit Service directly to the correspondent. They were sent to the committee for its information. We have received correspondence, dated 7 March 2014, from the Local Government Audit Service regarding Sligo County Council debt. The correspondence is to be noted. Can we publish it?