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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I ask the witnesses to let us have a copy of the internal audit reports pre-2007 and thereafter and details on the members of the audit committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Can we get a copy of those reports?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Can you tell us or find out for us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Will one of your officials ring your solicitor to ask about the position so we can find out where it is at? This matter has gone on for quite some time. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Say that again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: That was two years ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I would like to know because at the end of every action someone is going to have to either fight the action, present a case or do whatever. In this case, it is a business, a family and an individual. I stand to be corrected on the matter - I am asking you to check it for me - but it is extraordinary that it seems, from the information I have, that no contact has been made since then. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I am concerned about the legal division in your Department. I have encountered several cases. They are not relevant to this morning's meeting but to another meeting. I have met a considerable number of people who have expressed reservations about the manner in which the Department takes legal action. In fact, Judge Reynolds made a statement in a particular case, although we will not go...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: No, not that case but more generally. Is it okay to get that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We do not need that. We simply want a list of the figures and the properties without legal agreement, a list of those in respect of which the Department has secured legal agreement and leases and those still outstanding. Again, Mr. Moriarty, no names are needed. What were the rents involved and the arrears in respect of these properties? We want some explanation of how it emerged in this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: As Deputy Deasy has finished, I will return to correspondence dated 8 October received from the Secretary General, Mr. Moran, this morning on a particular case in Killybegs, County Donegal. In this correspondence, Mr. Moran states that the Office of the Chief State Solicitor was instructed to initiate legal proceedings against the individual on 16 July 2014. What does Mr. Moran base this on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Mr. Moran states that consequently the Chief State Solicitor's office was instructed to initiate legal proceedings against Mr. Shine, the man in question, on 16 July 2014. What is the process for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Who gave the Department that legal advice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Does the Department have a legal unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Is the senior lawyer a solicitor or a barrister?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Does that solicitor in the Department advise the Secretary General?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Would the Secretary General then instruct the solicitor to raise it with the Office of the Chief State Solicitor?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Did the Secretary General instruct the Office of the Chief State Solicitor to issue proceedings on 16 July 2014?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: What is the up-to-date position on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: The Secretary General has not. He has told the Office of the Chief State Solicitor.