Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:00 am

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are dealing with this item of correspondence now. The second response from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport is similar. The correspondence the Deputy mentioned refers to €436,000 and it raises many other questions. We need to have a further discussion on it. As with the previous correspondence, I suggest that items 3B.1 and 3B.2 should be discussed next week so that we set in train a process to deal with these matters directly with the Accounting Officers. The Deputy is correct in terms of governance and money. It is incredible that it would go on in the way it has.

Item 3B.2 is correspondence from Mr. Tom O’Mahoney, Secretary General, Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, regarding correspondence from Mr. Philip Cantwell. This is to be noted and forwarded to Mr. Cantwell. We will write to the Environmental Protection Agency as we agreed to do and will await its response. We will note and publish 3B.1 and 3B.2 and will follow up with a further meeting next week.

Item 3B.3 is correspondence, dated 8 June 2015, from Deputy Sean Fleming. It is evidence given to the Committee of Public Accounts at the meeting with the Department of Finance. This is to be noted. Does the Deputy wish to comment on this?

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