Results 18,061-18,080 of 26,825 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Even GSOC, which had commissioned the report, did not question Mr. O'Brien on it at the time, 2008 to 2009.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: It represents the state we were in. Mr. O'Brien said the worst offenders do not bother engaging with the system and, therefore, they get away.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: I wondered if I heard Mr. O'Brien correctly when he said that as one's speed and car registration are captured, one's photograph is also taken. What is preventing those who operate the system from identifying the individual driver within the company?
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: If one is speeding, one's registration and photograph is taken. Therefore companies can easily identify the driver. If somebody sends in a note denying that he or she was driving on the day of the offence, it should be possible to stop that by using the photograph.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: One would imagine, given that the judges are absolutely familiar with the law, that they would ask for the licences to be presented in court. Yet licenses are not being presented in court, which we were told this morning, is an offence. Where is the failure happening? Surely the judge should ask for the licence and add the penalty points to it. That does not happen. That is a simple...
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Why is it inflexible? What is the mechanism used to transfer the van from A to B?
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Who sets down those conditions? Who makes the decision?
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: In our report, then, we would need to look at that process, which is cumbersome and prevents immediate change.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: The system has grown up over the time that they have been in operation. Motorists know where cameras are likely to be and they drop to the appropriate speed limit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: That should be in the contract.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: That would depend on whether one implements a wholesale relocation of all of the vans, but one is not doing so. In the case of those boy racers who spin around on the roads, where the Garda wants to deploy one of those vans, there should be capacity within the contract to allow that to happen to some minimum degree. Otherwise it is a waste of a resource. To return to Mr. O'Brien's opening...
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. O'Brien.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: I welcome Mr. John O'Brien and apologise to him for the delay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)
John McGuinness: Mr. O'Brien may make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: Does the committee agree to dispose of Vote 31 and Chapter 14 of the 2012 report of the Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General? Agreed. We will break for 15 minutes before our session with Mr. O'Brien.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: We will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: We dealt with that matter in detail earlier. If the Deputy is interested in a specific issue, then she may pursue it. We requested the file of correspondence between the various Departments and the RSA.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: If the Deputy wants to pursue the matter further, that is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: We did not have a chance before the meeting to look at the CRC report. Copies have been printed for us.