Results 18,021-18,040 of 26,825 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: What is the figure for licensed sites?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: There are 22 licensed local authority sites and the cost to 31 December 2013 was €41.35 million. The estimated future cost is €840,000. If these were licensed sites, why did that happen? Were any officials within the various counties responsible for monitoring the licences or determining what was actually happening after the licences were granted? It seems to me that if...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: In regard to the employment of people for count centres and so on, the general complaint is that it is all local authority staff who get the job of counting votes and so on. Of course staff need experience in all these cases but there seems to be little or no attempt to bring in some people who would have the appropriate expertise and who could be part of that process. That is the general...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: I thank Mr. McCarthy. May we publish his statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: I call Deputy Harris.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: I welcome another Mr. McCarthy, as I know it is his first appearance before the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: We will send a reminder to the HSE. No. 3B.2 is correspondence from Mr. Martin McMahon regarding investigation by the PAC of widespread misclassification of workers as self employed, to be noted and a copy forwarded to the Department of Social Protection for a note on the matter. No. 3B.3 is correspondence received anonymously from a member of An Garda Síochána regarding waste...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Mr. Goulding did not fail to attend.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: We should not make a judgment this morning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: I understand that, but we have to be careful because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Exactly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: We will pursue it further in the afternoon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: We cannot do it now because we have to hold our meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: It will not be next week. The fact of the matter is that the individuals, as the clerk remarked, have been put on notice. They have not stated that they would not attend. We are simply setting up the meeting for next week in the context of who will attend. We understand that they have not responded and we are just going to check, but our meeting will go ahead next Thursday. We will let...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: I call Deputy O'Donnell, and then we must finish on this matter. We are just going around the houses with it now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: That is okay. Ms Laverne McGuinness will be attending on behalf of Mr. O'Brien with officials from the HSE. The request was for Mr. Cregan to be taken separately, but that request was denied and we will take Mr. Cregan and the HSE together.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: The chairman of the CRC's new board will be present.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Yes. I understand that the witnesses from our previous meeting, with the exception of Mr. Kiely, have been put on notice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: With the exception of Mr. Kiely, the three individuals are Mr. Conlon, Mr. Martin and Mr. Nugent. Separate from the clerk's direct contacts with the representative of that group, we will now direct our invitation to these individuals.