Results 381-400 of 2,211 for speaker:Paul Connaughton
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: Who was the official we were told was in the DVD?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: The official did not ask the farmer to use a lump hammer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: Is any of the evidence we submitted to the Department true?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: It is for that reason that I am not in the business of naming names. A couple of names were mentioned repeatedly but I will not refer to them because in one way it is their word against the word of Mr. O'Driscoll. As far as Mr. O'Driscoll is concerned, since its inception, the special investigations unit has done the job the Department and State asked it to do and has not done anything wrong.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: What happens in such cases?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: Why was a change made in the special investigations unit last year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: Why was the change at that time? It was reported that these concerns were taken on board and we should have changes now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: I have a final question, for the Chief State Solicitor’s office. Was there any case where it advised against prosecution but in which the Department went ahead with it? Was there any individual case in which the office advised that there should be no prosecution but where the Department prosecuted anyway?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: Ms Browne has not seen the seven cases which we talked about at a previous meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: I would like to raise three specific issues. The targeted agricultural modernisation scheme for young farmers was announced this week under the CAP deal. When will the 40% scheme for other farmers be announced? I have been contacted by dairy farmers who want to get the work done in the next couple of months in the interests of meeting the specifications for Bord Bia inspections. Do we...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: I know. Many are saying they need to do the work while the cows are out. They want to have it finished before October or November.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: It would make sense to open it up sooner rather than later.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: I raise the issue of planners under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, a matter on which I have been very parochial. I understand the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine raised an issue about the level of a qualification provided by Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology at Mountbellew Agricultural College. I am aware that meetings have taken place about the possibility...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: That is perfect. The last issue relates to tagging and its procurement within the Department. What role does the Department play in that or is it all done through the Office of Government Procurement? I refer to the tagging for the beef genomics scheme and the general cattle tags contract.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: It goes through the Department. Have concerns been raised with the Department on the quality of the tags by other companies that wish to get involved in the procurement process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Paul Connaughton: I thank Mr. O'Driscoll.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts in Education Charter (18 Jun 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 22. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress her Department has made on implementing the Arts in Education Charter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23556/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (18 Jun 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 40. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in relation to the Government’s plans on Ireland 2016, if she is satisfied that the capital projects on track will be completed on time for the centenary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23555/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Paul Connaughton: I welcome the briefing on the beef data and genomics programme, but this seems unusual, as the closing date has passed. We had a meeting on the scheme in Tuam three or four weeks ago. The officials should have been there in front of 700 farmers to go through the scheme with them. I know a number of people withdrew their application on the basis of what they heard. Now they want to go back...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Is that just TB or something like that?