Results 581-600 of 1,044,643 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Michael McGrath OR speaker:David Stanton) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The question is around oversight and how the registry is done. We lost a forest but we gained a Georgian house. We then found out someone was living in the Georgian house. We did not gain a cottage. We decided we had found a Georgian house on Backweston Farm. We did not know the house was there and we found out that the farm foreman resides on the farm but no tenancy agreement is in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We found out that Stacumny Cottage is let to a member staff for €104 per year, which is a fairly good rental cost in this market. This investigation was only carried out on 38% of the lands. Has the Department subsequently reviewed the other 62% of the property?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Were the details of the tenancies covered within the contracts of employment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will put a question to Ms Ivory. As an official of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery, and Reform, is she happy to allow a nil valuation to sit on the balance sheet? Is she happy that those nil values are recorded?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I understand it is a matter for the Department. I am asking for the view of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery, and Reform on the current situation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have many more questions on many more subjects but my time has elapsed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will ask a few boiler house questions. We unfortunately have a trend of non-compliance with procurement rules. It was €3.5 million in 2022 for 44 contracts. In 2021, it was €3.8 million relating to 64 contracts and in 2020, it was €3.5 million relating to 64 contracts. It is around €3.5 million per year. Are many of these non-compliant contracts what we...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There were two fairly significant duplicate payments. Have they been fully recovered?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Gleeson put my mind at rest? There were five instances of fraud and two duplicate payments. Was there any link between them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am asking an oral question in the Dáil shortly so I am a little under pressure with the clock, both from the Chair and the Dáil. I will pick up on a point Deputy Devlin made about our need to be able to look at animal welfare in the round and not just concentrate on this abattoir issue, which the latest issue. We had RTÉ before the committee last year with its travails...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know it is a matter of Government policy and that the Department is constrained. Was it considered-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Was consideration given to putting it into the terms of reference for this external review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The external review will be entirely silent on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. I also have a view on that. What is the cost of the external review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are not far down the line. We have announced an intention to have an external review. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Do we have a timeline?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is for the tendering process, which will take a certain amount of time. Surely the terms of reference includes a reporting time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are hearing on this issue that the Department will do a root and branch review, that there is urgency and all the rest. However, in response to another "RTÉ Investigates" programme from a full year ago, I am told the Department has looked at a terms of reference and is thinking about bringing something to tender. It does not speak of urgency. When we saw the conditions those dogs...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I just want the headline figure. Sorry to interrupt.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What are we spending on biosecurity controls?