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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The other ones will be audited by that time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Our committee will get the accounts for the end of August 2018 early in the new year. Fieldwork is well under way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will certainly come back to it at that stage. We will note and publish that information in the meantime. It is good to get it. The next item of correspondence - we are nearly there - is No. 2554B, from the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality, dated 14 November, responding to our request for information regarding asylum seekers. The information was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That means they are in discussions and various stages of completion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask what the word means.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask what that means and we will ask them to spell out the different stages in that process because it can be broken down into several stages. One other item I want to ask-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The correspondence states that 4,190 people have come in the first ten months. That is in the order of 100 people per week. We can rightly say that figures went up in the two or three days that we were looking at.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: There were years in the past where 6,000 people arrived.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask about the different stages of the mobilisation, and about the different facilities provided in the emergency accommodation versus those in centres. Most of the centres are former hotels. Some of the hotels and guest houses are solely dedicated to emergency accommodation. There are no other people in this accommodation, although a certain number of rooms are set aside in some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General is saying then that some of the cost incurred by the Department of Justice and Equality are built in by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am not sure nor is the Comptroller and Auditor General 100% sure, but he has a greater understanding of this than I have.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Can we write to both Departments for clarification of this issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We can do that as is part of our work programme. In the meantime, we will seek information on this in written format. We can decide to get back to the Department of Foreign Affairs if we wish. I called Deputy Munster.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. That will complete our discussion on this matter. No. 2555 is from an individual, dated 11 November, requesting that the committee make inquiries regarding personal information collected for the public services card. We will write to the Department to ask for details on this. The correspondence states that there is information on debt levels, SAFE levels, quarantine, welfare...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Local Government Fund had income from motor tax and local property tax. Local property tax went to local authorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It still goes into the Central Fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is transferred to the Central Fund at the end of the day, the week, or the month.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay, it is not separate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. It still goes into the Exchequer however; it is not separate.