Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 March 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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In any event, we will hold the document over. It is substantial and if members read it we will be able to have a more detailed discussion on it at the next meeting and then decide what action to take, if we wish to take action.

The next item is No. 1175 from an individual in regard to AIB and his treatment in respect of his tracker mortgage. We have not circulated the item as it contains a considerable amount of personal financial information and is not a matter within the remit of the committee. I have asked the clerk not to circulate that information. Is the committee agreed that the information should not be circulated and that the committee should write to the individual to suggest that the matter may be appropriate for the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach or the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman? It is a matter between an individual and AIB. We will write back to him on that basis.

The next item on our agenda concerns statements of accounts received since the last meeting and they are coming up on the screen. The first item is the Grangegorman Development Agency. It has a clear audit opinion and we note that. The Ombudsman for Children's Office received a clear audit opinion and we note that. The Environment Fund received a clear audit opinion. Did we deal with the Environment Fund with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government last-----