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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) John Deasy: -----there or thereabouts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) John Deasy: I understand all that. I understand the process. Does Mr. Ryan have no idea of the number of sittings that have been postponed because of the vacancies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) John Deasy: Mr. Ryan cannot answer that question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) John Deasy: No. I believe the issue will be dealt with now that the nominations have been made. I am trying to find out how this occurred procedurally and make the point to the Department that it should not occur again. We are in an unusual situation with the creation of an entirely different court, but at the same time, these things happen on occasion because of retirements, deaths, promotions and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) John Deasy: There is a gap.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) John Deasy: That is fine. I know that; I just said that. Even when it comes to civil Circuit Court issues, they are fairly serious.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) John Deasy: When we talk about criminal Circuit Court issues we are talking about very serious crimes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) John Deasy: When we talk about civil Circuit Court sittings, those are serious issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) John Deasy: If seven principals of primary schools were being promoted from the ranks there would not be vacancies for the positions they left because teachers would be in place. Yet when it comes to this area, it appears to be acceptable. It is a political process. I know it should not be, and it is something this Government probably has fallen down on when it comes to judicial appointments. In our...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: The point of this was-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: Yes. We asked the Comptroller and Auditor General about the costs and the answer we received was there are substantial costs involved with a joint application. It is something over which the committee has jurisdiction. People in Carlow and Waterford are really interested in finding out about who knew about the process while it was not evolving, at what point was it, in effect, a broken...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: The timeline here is important. Everybody wants a particular entity to come before the committee yesterday, but there is a schedule and there are only a certain number of weeks available. The last time I spoke to the clerk about this he suggested that Carlow and Waterford could come before the committee in January. The situation, as it lies now, is that the Minister has appointed Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: Let us run through it. The university is effectively repeating the line that it can avoid this issue because of the contract. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: Technically, under regulations and legislatively, there may not be an onus on UCC to pay the subcontractor in this case. It is, however, a question of fairness. It is a question of a large entity knowing that works were carried out well and that given amounts of money are owed, yet it has effectively ignored this on the basis of the contract drawn up. It is fair enough that there is a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: Let us think it through. Is the legislation specifically geared towards Departments, State agencies or entities funded by the State? If it covers entities funded by the State to a certain degree, does it kick in when it comes to such companies?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: If that is the case, UCC has a problem. It cannot simply ignore the matter based on the contract because the legislation will supersede the contract.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: I have not read the legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: Surely there are many such outstanding bills, although I am not altogether sure whether that is the case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: One consideration is whether there is a grandfather clause.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)
John Deasy: Thank you, Chairman.