Results 121-140 of 1,295 for "value for money review"

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...us a summary document, which members will want to read and study, even though there is not much commercial information in it. It has given us the summary report prepared by PwC in respect of the value for money review, which will be useful for members who have an interest in this area to review this document. Finally, it includes a report from the Irish Public Bodies value for money...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

...Future of Policing in Ireland. It raises the issue of the use of gardaí for prison escorts. The commission felt it was not a great use of garda time and not a core function. It picked up on a value-for-money review that was carried out on this question in 2017. As part of the implementation programme concerning the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland, there will be a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: RAPID Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Michael Ring: ...on two schemes which operated in 2017, the Communities Facilities Scheme (CFS) and the re-cast RAPID programme. It was put in place following a review of those two schemes, and consideration of a Value-for-Money review of the original RAPID programme that closed to new applications in 2011. Combining these schemes makes for a more flexible, streamlined and targeted approach to providing...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú: We did some work on this in the value for money review and we have a contested comparison between private and public.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Value for Money Reviews (13 Dec 2018)

Denise Mitchell: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a value for money review will be undertaken of the national childcare investment programme which operated from 2006 to 2010 with a particular focus on the private sector capital funding element of the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52295/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: RAPID Programme (11 Dec 2018)

Michael Ring: ...the original RAPID programme. The new approach was put in place following a review of the Communities Facilities Scheme and the re-cast RAPID programme that operated in 2017, and also takes into account a value-for-money review of the original RAPID programme. My Department also provides other funding streams to support disadvantaged communities, including the Social Inclusion and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...from the previous meeting. It is from the CEO of the Local Government Management Agency, dated 2 November 2018, in relation to a request from the committee for a copy of its report arising from the value for money review of Irish Public Bodies. The report is subject to a non-disclosure agreement between LGMA, Irish public bodies and PricewaterhouseCoopers dated 2 September 2015. The CEO...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Mr. Mark Griffin: We did not do a cost-benefit analysis, per se, but we did do a value for money review in 2007. The Comptroller and Auditor General audited the effectiveness of the MANs in 2008, if memory serves me right. Part of the analysis we did in 2016 was a retrospective to see how effective the management service entity, MSE, had been in discharging its functions under the contract.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...of correspondence. The next item of correspondence is No. 1703, from the CEO of the Local Government Management Agency, LGMA, on a request from the committee for a copy of a report arising from a value for money review of Irish public bodies. The report is subject to a non-disclosure agreement between the LGMA, Irish Public Bodies, IPB, insurance and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The CEO...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (27 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 56. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has undertaken a value for money review of the cost of the national broadband plan; the impact it will have on the on the wider national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49186/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: .... No. 1703B is from Mr. Paul Dunne, CEO of the Local Government Management Agency, LGMA, dated 2 November 2018 in respect of a request from the committee for a copy of a report arising from a value for money review of Irish Public Bodies, IPB, insurance. Mr. Dunne advises that the report is subject to a non-disclosure agreement between the LGMA, Irish Public Bodies and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (23 Oct 2018)

Joe McHugh: ...has been leading consultations involving my Department and school patrons and trustees concerning the conduct of a value for money study of school insurance premia. As part of this process, a value for money review of IPB has been conducted and it concluded that the ETBs and County Councils, the effective “owners” of this mutual insurance body, are receiving value for money...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (23 Oct 2018)

Shane Ross: As the Deputy will know, Exchequer supports for Sligo Airport ceased following a Value for Money Review of the Regional Airports Programme and an associated Government Decision in June 2011.  Accordingly, from 2012, the Regional Airports Programme only provides targeted support in the areas of safety and security to four regional airports at Donegal, Ireland West...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Seán Fleming: ...and Skills. The next item is No. 1642B from Mr. Derek Finnegan of the parliamentary affairs division in the Department of Health, providing an update requested by the committee regarding the value for money review of public nursing homes. The letter is essentially saying that it will be next year before the review is completed. I will put the letter up on the screen in order that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Michael Ring: ...make sure that money is targeted at areas where it is needed. I will ask my Department to monitor this. We are using the Pobal HP deprivation index guidelines to help decide on the allocation of moneys. A value for money review of the RAPID programme was carried out, and I absorbed the findings of that report. I hope that by providing the funding directly to the LCDCs, we can target...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (17 Oct 2018)

Joe McHugh: ...these amalgamations, it is not feasible to source individual school records. A number of changes to the School Transport Scheme were introduced in Budget 2011, which derived from recommendations in the Value for Money Review of the Scheme. These changes encompassed a number of elements and included the cessation of the 'Closed/Central School Rule' at primary level.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (9 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Local Government Act 2001, as amended by the Local Government Reform Act 2014, provides the legislative basis for the local authority budget process. It is a matter for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities in the context of the annual budgetary process having regard to both locally identified needs and available resources. The elected members of a local...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...of the County and City Managers Association, the Education and Training Boards (ETBs) and the Office of Government Procurement (OGP). The objective of the Steering Group was to oversee a value for money review by IPB and it concluded that "at an aggregate level, IPB is providing an insurance service that represents value for money for its members and is operated efficiently". We want a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Tendering (26 Sep 2018)

John Halligan: ...transport and road passenger vehicles, and private contractor vehicles. In this regard over 90% of school transport services are provided by private operator vehicles under contract to Bus Éireann. The Value for Money Review published in 2011 recommended that a single national organiser (separate from the Department of Education and Skills) with a regional dimension should...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (25 Sep 2018)

John Halligan: ...becoming Minister of State, I have endeavoured to ensure there has been no increase in the cost of this scheme, at detriment to myself in terms of my budget allocation each year. The independent value for money review showed that the amount paid by families for the school transport scheme would be four times greater if they had to drive their children to school. It is really good value....