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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: We are up-to-date on what has happened in the case of WIT and Carlow Institute of Technology.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: To all intents and purposes, the merger is dead. An announcement was made by the board of governors in Waterford to the effect that it no longer wished to pursue the application jointly. What is the substantive point of the correspondence received so far?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (18 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: 256. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to Circuit Court proceedings that have been postponed and delayed around the country due to the appointment of persons to the new Court of Appeal and vacancies arising in the Circuit Court as a result of this; when she expects replacement appointments to be made in the Circuit Court so that Circuit Court...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (11 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: 308. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide funding for the installation of CCTV in Dungarvan and Waterford City, Ballybricken Garda Sstations; the number of Garda district and divisional headquarters here do not have CCTV cameras installed. [43071/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Compulsory Purchase Orders (11 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: 310. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide additional resources for property arbitration involving State compulsory purchase order applications in view of the fact that there are currently only two arbitrators appointed by the Supreme Court land values reference committee for the entire country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43085/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Services (11 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: 579. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of call-outs, by day and night, undertaken by each of the four Coast Guard search and rescue helicopters based around Ireland in 2013 and to date in 2014. [43297/14]

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: If anybody on this side of the House is engaging in gimmicks, he or she did not lick it off a stone.

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: I will focus on measures in the Bill which relate to what is commonly referred to as the double Irish tax arrangement. I will also touch on the relevance of legislation which would introduce mandatory collective bargaining, and the impact of such legislation on what is in this Bill. The relationship between our tax code and corporations, particularly overseas companies, is changing rapidly....

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

John Deasy: Does the Deputy recall the line, "don't talk down the economy"?

Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: What caught my attention reading this Bill was that it amounted to a legislative initiative to provide legal certainty to our research exemption for companies located here, presumably many of them from the United States. Exemption is the key word here. The second part of the Bill seeks to harmonise administration procedures for many of those same companies under the Singapore Treaty on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Mr. McCarthy is saying it should be itemised for the special cost with regard to restructuring.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: I think what the Comptroller and Auditor General is saying is that the HEA should also be asked to come in to the committee, if we were to ask WIT and CIT to account for this. Time is of the essence here. I do not want to clog up the work programme any further but there is an imperative to ask these organisations to come in quickly. This has been going on too long. Depending on who one...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Will you make it clear to them that the expectation is that they come before the committee in the short term?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: I think I speak for a lot of people in the south east, not just in Carlow and Waterford, who, when they look at this situation, view it as being messy. They are tired of it. It has gone on too long. They can reasonably expect a reasonable degree of governance when it comes to these two bodies and this joint application. I am coming to the conclusion that the governance of this application...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Can I ask a further question related to something the Chairman brought up earlier?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: It joins up with what Deputies Ross, McDonald and others have mentioned. If it is deemed unlawful for Irish Water to come in to this committee, is there a committee within the Oireachtas that it would be lawful for it to appear before, for example, the environment committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: Does its remit allow Irish Water to present itself?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: On a second question, what is the process when it comes to changing a standing order?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: At the risk of clogging up the work programme I shall raise something else, a matter concerning the Waterford Institute of Technology and Carlow Institute of Technology. Both bodies come under the remit of the committee and have been in here recently. An abrupt announcement was made a couple of days ago that the amalgamation or merger of the two organisations was ending. A joint...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John Deasy: I have a practical question that applies to everything we are doing including the other court case. If we deal with the Health Service Executive or the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport or a body funded by a Department that wants to come in here to explain a situation to money expended from the public purse, is that unlawful then? We are getting to a point of absolute absurdity here.