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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (7 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: 469. To ask the Minister for Health if transport services will be restored to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6015/17]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have a quorum and are now in public session. We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to this committee. He is accompanied by Ms Mahin Fitzpatrick. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of last week's meeting on 26 January, 2017. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. I wish to raise one item arising out of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is one of the points already communicated to them in writing to supply. The one thing the committee will do is make sure we have a tracker system in place so that when we ask questions we get replies within a reasonable period and not weeks afterwards.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will add to that. I forget how long ago it was that we had representatives from the Department of Social Protection in to discuss the insolvency fund. We asked for information and we are still waiting for it. I am not letting it go. I submitted a parliamentary question on it to further prompt the information. We have to be very clear; we have to have a tracking system so that we do not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: It did not jump out at me. That is all I will say.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is that document, which is a briefing note.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: I missed that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: I missed that. The clerk might help us by providing a copy. I seemed to have missed it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We all seem to have missed it. We will try to get hard copies for all of us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We should not be giving out to the Secretary General for non-receipt of it; he is guilty of sending it in too early. He caught us on the hop. We will all get a copy of that. I will move on to correspondence, No. 266C, i to iv, and No. 267, i to ii. This is correspondence from last week where we are awaiting another explanatory note. It all relates to payment of public moneys by Dublin...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: Could Mr. McCarthy send the committee a note on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is it in the financial statements?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: Those are available in the Oireachtas Library if anyone wants to have a look at them. There will possibly be indications in them. I take it the claims date has passed and no new claims can come in at this stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is under the HSE. We will write to the HSE to get an update and summary on that whole issue because €453 million is a big amount of money. We were all conscious of it a couple of years ago but we have kind of forgotten about the issue since. We will add that as an agenda item when representatives from the HSE are in next month. We will discuss the patients fund account, fair...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy wants that note in circulation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am happy to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: Essentially, we will clarify it and sent a note out. We are just examining the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. We are not doing an investigation as such; we are examining the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. We did not seek powers of compellability. We are examining the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and that is it. However, we will specify what the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: That has been said in the Dáil.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are in public session and I have no problem dealing with this issue. I sought additional staff when we commenced our work and we had staff going through all the correspondence, summarising everything for the report, and they were available to us until the beginning of January. We probably thought we would have had a draft report in January. It has taken a little longer because we held...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am commending the staff.