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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: As I just walk in the door, I asked Shane what should I say. I join with everybody else. As Deputy Murphy and others said, sometimes it was the stuff outside of the pack that one would receive. It was the check-ins to make sure that one had a good grasp of whatever it was. Shane was also led by what we brought forward. That was important that he took his lead from the interests of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Did the HSE provide Mr. McCarthy with a title or description of that post?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: What was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Was it a consultant? Was it an accountant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Verona Murphy has touched on a broader point around how we price, plan and fund infrastructure projects. Perhaps that is a different piece of work that the Committee of Public Accounts could look at. It does not come from any one set of accounts that comes to us from Mr. McCarthy, but we are starting to see a pattern across a number of different Departments, specifically the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The Deputy is right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps it is better discussed in private session, but I do think Ms O'Keeffe, for example, was a witness who was asked to come before this committee, and she did not come before it on any occasion, although she was invited once. We need to consider that as a committee, but perhaps it is something we can do along with our work plan on this topic in private session. I think it is worth...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Could you clarify that for us again, a Chathaoirligh?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: How about 21 September and 28 September?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Of course. Are you proposing, a Chathaoirligh, that RTÉ would come in on 12 October?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: How does that align with our obligations to do a report to the Dáil? Is there a date on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It is a very complex area. I think we should give the secretariat four or five or even more weeks to conclude the report and then for us to do amendments. I am just worried that we are coming very close to the end of the year if we add that period in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Just in time for "The Toy Show".
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I had requested that, but there is no obvious reason for it at the moment. I have to check that. I will defer to Deputy Catherine Murphy's suggestion in the absence of a reason.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I am sorry. Of course he does, yes. Are we in a position yet to bring them forward?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The building is lying idle for nearly ten years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: That makes sense.