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- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The college did not borrow and yet was effectively allowed to take on bank debts.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: What was the scale of the debt?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Send us the finished report and Quigley report and we will go from there.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does Deputy Connolly want to ask a final question?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Some of the senior people in these organisations have shareholdings in companies and positions in the public bodies. I presume they are required to sign some statement under the ethics legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Do the witnesses check-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Will Dr. Love explain what the authority does in that regard? We have just uncovered it with regard to Templemore Garda training centre this morning in that people with shareholdings in an organisation did not comply with ethics legislation. We are asking the witnesses what they do to ensure all the people with shareholdings who have positions in these organisations that come under the...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: This needs to be dealt with. There is ethics legislation reaching down to local authority level and people have to find those in positions of authority in all State bodies. Dr. Love needs to examine the matter and ensure that he can be satisfied that all the ethics legislation is covered.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is the governance issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are concluding now and one thing I have to say-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is in place but nobody has checked if it is implemented.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I think the witnesses get the point. We are used to hearing that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform sent out protocols directives and policy statements. Does anyone ever find out that it is not our function to do that? The last point is that the set of financial statements on the Higher Education Authority's website that was presented today is not complete. The witnesses...
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will say no more.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: There would normally be a date of the signing of the accounts. That is not in it either.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It looks to be the final draft. We have concluded our business at this stage. We expect to see a representative of the Higher Education Authority with us tomorrow. Who is coming?
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will be here next Thursday.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I welcome Dr. Love to his new post and I hope he finds the next two days with the different institutes educational from his point of view, if he will pardon the pun. We are all in a learning process. I thank the witnesses.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Levy Yield (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount received through the levy introduced on private pension funds on a yearly basis; the amount he had originally planned to raise through this tax; his plans to return the excess amount collected or the total amount collected to the private pension funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15548/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: 127. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, with regard to services in the paediatric unit and maternity unit arising from the recent meeting with regional management and staff in the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15544/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (28 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the level of funding which can be made for CCTV in smaller towns throughout the country; if such a fund is open for such groups to apply to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14842/17]