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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay. Is that agreed? We will schedule it but we have a number of meetings scheduled.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will put them on notice. The secretariat will contact them formally and put them on notice, with a date to be agreed. That is it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will put it on the work schedule. Those are all the items in respect of correspondence. We have just dealt with the work programme.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We wrote to the Minister directly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: There has been no response.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will follow that up. Some staff in Console have not yet been paid for their work. We wrote to the liquidator as well. I can predict the answer we will get there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will follow that up. The Minister is the person to whom we wrote. I think we wrote to the HSE, the liquidator and the Minister. Really, the Minister will have to take some action on this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes. We are now dealing with any other business.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Connolly and she will be followed by Deputy Cullinane.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Appropriate.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I ask members to please speak through the Chair.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Cullinane.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane is next as he indicated his wish to speak at the very beginning.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputy MacSharry.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Through the Chair. Deputy MacSharry is the next speaker.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I call on Deputy MacSharry and I urge him to speak on this topic.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We should stick to this topic.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Members have asked me questions and I will explain the full background. I explained previously that the sequence commences with the letter of 15 February 2017 from the Minister to this committee, which is reproduced in full in the report. Before the members had an opportunity to consider that letter, the Minister was before the finance committee dealing with Estimates. He took the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: On our report, in that we were potentially making adverse findings against NAMA. I am taking it a step further. Senior people in this House made it very clear to me as Chairman that if they were not happy with the wording in the report, they would prevent our report being issued and they would take it to the Committee on Procedures and Privilege to have it approved by it.