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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Ó Mongáin is the RTE journalist with the "This Week" programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is in the jurisdiction of the Information Commissioner.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It would be instructive to contact the HSE immediately after this discussion concludes to apprise it of our views and the points made by members. We should first read copies of the original freedom of information request and the correspondence setting out the refusal. Let us examine the documents and decide whether we want to take the matter further. Deputy Farrell is correct, however,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Before this meeting concludes, a communication will be sent to the HSE seeking a response regarding the narrative in respect of the freedom of information request. We will also want to have sight of the original freedom of information request that was made and correspondence setting out the reason for refusing or not granting the request in full. Second, we need an update on the procurement...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it is important. My experience of submitting freedom of information requests to the Department of Social Protection on various decisions is that there are different freedom of information officers or units in the Department depending on which allowance is involved. We need to know who in the freedom of information section dealt with these requests and if there is one office with overall...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will return to this matter tomorrow in the context of our consideration of our work programme. We will set a date for it as early as possible. We have a couple of meetings planned. If members want to take this item a little earlier than the work programmes allow for then that would involve a separate meeting in addition to our Thursday meetings. I am not suggesting that, rather I am...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I take the Deputy's point. I am not suggesting that we schedule additional meetings. I am asking only if that is the desire of members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am conscious that there are many committees.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We need an eight day week. We will deal with the report as soon as possible. The secretariat will make arrangements for it. Category C is correspondence from, or in relation to, private individuals, and any other correspondence. No. 354C is correspondence from an individual in relation to work related issues as an employee of Revenue and informing the committee that the person will be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We responded last week to the effect that the matter was not one within the brief of the committee. We will seek a response from the Minister for Health, which we will pass on to the individual concerned. No. 362C is correspondence dated 15 March from Mr. Willie Donnelly, president of Waterford Institute of Technology in relation to positions he held in Feed Henry, a campus company in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy requesting that someone from the HEA be present at the Waterford meeting, as well as the Waterford people?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Can the Deputy ask those questions to the HEA today?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: If the information required can be attained that is well and good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will be guided by the Deputy on this. If he feels there is a need or it would be helpful to call someone, we will certainly do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are putting the HEA on notice that it should be present at all meetings involving third level institutions-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----and if there are specific requests for particular people. Is that agreed across the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We understand where we are going with that. The next item is No. 337C, dated 10 March from the National Transport Authority, providing a note on the licensing of bus services operated by Bus Éireann. We note and publish that. The next item is correspondence from the Office of the Garda Commissioner dated 14 March, providing information on when a Garda Sióchána audit...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Mater report is a historic report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is right, and we have asked the National Hospital Paediatric Board to outline the costs incurred to date and the systems it has in place to ensure that the costing system they have used in the past are valid and will hold. The Deputy is partly right.