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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: When we finish dealing with Project Eagle, we will deal with this report. The Comptroller and Auditor General has drafted a working paper for us to consider. I have seen it in the last few days, but I have not yet had a chance to read it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is telling me that we have to move smartly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are making progress. Our work programme is as follows. Today, we will have the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. Next Thursday, we will have the Department of Health and the HSE to deal with patient private fund accounts and their financial statements. We will have a note on the fair deal scheme and the health repayment scheme donation fund. It is not a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: On the children's hospital, we wrote a detailed letter last week to the new national paediatric hospital development board and to the Secretary General of the Department of Health who was involved in the planning before the board was established. We asked for a detailed response on the assumptions used in the costs. I am conscious that the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health has also...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Members should volunteer and put their names down. They can contact the secretariat. Nobody else has come forward yet. Members might want to judge it based on the dates particular institutions will be represented here. The secretariat is working on the detailed timescale in that regard. We have a gap on 13 April which we will fill next week. We have not confirmed attendance. On 4...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does it deal with where the revenue from the motor tax goes after it is collected?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I think we all know what we are talking about there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is the local government fund up for discussion today?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That topic can be raised today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: On the outstanding issues vote accounting and budget management, and then we have the procurement and management of contracts. That is one of the outstanding issues and then NTMA. We have only a couple of outstanding issues to deal with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is item No. 6, procurement and management of contracts. It is there specifically. We do have a date. I guarantee it is on our work programme and it will definitely be dealt with, but we do not have a date yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: We are now dealing with Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government. We are also dealing with the Comptroller and Auditor General report 2105, chapter 4 regarding central funding to local authorities and chapter 5, progress on land aggregation. From the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government we are joined by Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General; Ms Maria...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy for his contribution. On the figures for Irish Water in 2015, the Comptroller and Auditor General made a separate reference to funding for Irish Water which Mr. McCarthy did not mention. Are the figures for 2015 correct? Mr. McCarthy has said €222 million was provided for capital expenditure, €399 million for operations and by way of a subvention, while...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Yes. The Comptroller and Auditor General has a paragraph in his report stating that in 2015 an amount of €427 million was transferred directly from the Exchequer in the form of a once-off grant payment to local authorities. It was to allow them to repay borrowings from the Housing Finance Agency that had been used to fund local authority water supply and treatment infrastructure that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Yes. We need to clarify the word "reclassification" in order that the public understands what Mr. McCarthy means. The assets transferred, but the liabilities remained with the taxpayer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Am I correct when I say that talking about reclassifying liabilities is a nice way of saying the taxpayer paid for those liabilities while the assets went to Irish Water minus the liabilities?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: That is correct. From the point of view of taxpayers, these moneys primarily went through the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government but also went through central funds that did not go through the Department's Vote. Thankfully, the Comptroller and Auditor General highlighted this issue separately in his remarks this morning. The transfer in respect of Irish Water...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: That is correct. Okay. The opening speakers - Deputies Cassells and MacSharry - have 20 and 15 minutes, respectively. Deputies Catherine Murphy, Cullinane, Connolly and Madigan have also indicated and they will be taken in that order.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: The HAP is the biggest of the lot.