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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Does every member have the right to go to the office where the recordings are? Is that agreed? That is a first step.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I chaired a committee in the previous Oireachtas. There was a misunderstanding among most Oireachtas Members to the effect that we could not get a record of meetings in private session. As Chairman of a committee in the last Oireachtas, there was confusion about something that was said and I got the opportunity to go to Kildare House with the clerk to the committee and listen to the tape....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: The Chairman has asked me to clarify my request. It is beyond me that, as a Member of the Oireachtas, when I make comments and put questions at a committee meeting and they are recorded, I should have to ask the Ceann Comhairle and the CPP for permission to provide me with a record of what I said. It is absurd. If the witness does not look for it, I am saying that I want a record of what...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: We are here as the Committee of Public Accounts representing the public. Up to now, we have been doing a good job on behalf of the public we represent. The public is supportive of what has come out of various committees during recent weeks. I believe that if we now pull down the shutters in terms of particular information we have received and tell the public this is because on occasion...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Regulator Establishment (13 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: 123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a complete breakdown of the Estimate of €552,000 for the establishment of the new lottery regulator; the way the Estimate figure was arrived at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7234/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Licence Sale (13 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the total costs in respect of the sale of the national lottery licence, including consultancy fees paid to a company (details supplied), and a complete breakdown of this and all other costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7235/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: 242. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will have an operation carried out. [7233/14]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I ask that we postpone the completion of our consideration of the motion until we receive the relevant information. There is a history of our not receiving promised information. There is an opportunity to give it to us on this occasion because we have enough time. We have until the end of the month to report to the Dáil, as the Chairman has already stated. I propose that we have a...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: The information I seek is so tied. I asked about the €45 million in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of the slowdown associated with schemes. This is the main item in the moneys carried forward. It will take only a minute or two to discuss it at our next meeting. It is a way of ensuring the committee will receive the relevant...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: No. There is a history in that the Minister of State's senior Minister did the same to us a month ago.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I understand that.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: It would take only two minutes before or after an item of business at another meeting.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I would be happy with seven days.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Is that in order? Can we defer completion of our consideration of a motion? When is the deadline for reporting to the Dáil?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Is it possible for this committee to complete its consideration today but withhold the sending of the message until 19 February?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I accept the Chairman’s good faith on this.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Does the Chairman understand where I am coming from? I was codded once before.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Exactly.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: It is significant in some of the line Departments.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2014: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: It is 1% surrender and 3% carry forward.