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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) John McGuinness: I call Deputy Shane Ross.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) John McGuinness: Are there any other constituency matters?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) John McGuinness: That depends.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: The Deputy can link in with the clerk and express his interest. Can we agree the agenda for Thursday, 10 October? We will deal with the 2013 accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta and, in the second session, the 2013 accounts of Shannon Free Airport Development Company. Is the agenda agreed? Agreed. If there is no other matter, we will invite the witnesses to attend.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) John McGuinness: I ask members, witnesses and those in the public gallery to turn off their mobile phones, as they interfere with sound quality in the transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that you are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence you are to give this committee. If you are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence in relation to a particular matter and you...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) John McGuinness: Mr. Donagh Morgan, from the Department of Transport and Sport, is also here. I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, to introduce his report on the relevant appropriation accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Financial Statements 2012: Irish Sports Council (2 Oct 2014) John McGuinness: I invite Mr. Treacy to give his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: The first item on our agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 25 September 2014. Are the minutes agreed to? Agreed. On matters arising from the minutes, last week we decided to publish the three reports that are now available. Members are invited to the audiovisual room for the launch of the reports at 2 p.m. I refer to correspondence received since Thursday, 25 September 2014. No. 3B...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We will put together the correspondence in respect of the special investigation unit in order that we will have a background in the context of that meeting. No. 3B.4 is correspondence, dated 26 September 2014, from Mr. Thomas Reed in regard to Horse Sport Ireland, to be noted. Members can raise this matter at today's meeting No. 3C is correspondence relevant to today's meeting. No. 3C.1...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We will get a note on it and we will set a date for it to come in. What happens when the Comptroller and Auditor General puts a note on the audit, in particular in regard to suspected fraud? Does the organisation have to do a separate report to the Comptroller and Auditor General?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Are they obliged to inform the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General if they have reported it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: These are the 2013 statements that have just been lodged. In the case of the National Library of Ireland, the accounts are for 2012. Why are they not lodging the accounts for 2013?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I apologise for making the running but I want to find out the process. Was this fraud discovered in the context of 2012 accounts or before it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: What were the answers to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Can we write to each of these agencies, given the seriousness of the situation, asking them for a report of the up-to-date position in order that members would be aware of what is going on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Can that note on the National Library of Ireland be dealt with in the context of the Department of Finance accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We had a commitment from Mr. Ó Donnchú, when he was at the previous meeting, that he would give us an update on the city of culture spend. He might do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: The revised work programme is on the screen. We prepared a revised work programme which takes account of the annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. If members have any proposals arising from that report, I ask them to contact the clerk and we will have it revised again next week. That is the work programme and we will schedule the other work agreed today into that. If...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We will write to both and we will get the dates set up. Can we agree the agenda for Thursday?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Legal Costs (1 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: 75. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total legal costs to his Department for the past ten years in relation to the work of the special investigation unit; if he will confirm the settlements that were made arising from the work of the SIU; the number of court cases pending arising from investigations by the SIU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37244/14]