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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (12 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: 552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer's benefit can be paid to a parent whose son or daughter reaches 16 years of age and will receive a disability payment in his or her own right having previously been on the domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46352/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (12 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: 562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to assist persons with disabilities in wheelchairs to ensure there is a minimum standard for toilets to be 2 m wide by 2 m long for wheelchairs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46326/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness. He is joined by Ms Geraldine Mooney, deputy director of audit. We have received no apologies for this meeting. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 24 October - we had no meeting last week - together with the follow-up questions sent to the Department of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it would appear so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We made the recommendation, but that is not to say that it may not have been done in any event. The committee did make a recommendation, however. The Comptroller and Auditor General compiled a chapter on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: To which page number is the Deputy referring?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It would have been the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: What is the purpose of that unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is it a permanent unit and fully staffed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We might ask for a note on that. I was not aware of its existence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I wish to make one or two final comments. We will obviously write to the Secretary General of the Department about the implementation of the recommendations listed on page 3. Recommendations have been made and we want to see what is happening. That is a minor point. We should write to the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform about this issue and send this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Very well. We want to ensure that projects take a whole-of-Government approach if funding comes from various sources and not just the line Department. We also want the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to have a policy on reports. A public spending update is to be published, or perhaps it has already been published. One recommendation is that training should be mandatory. While...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is wonderful, but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have discussed this matter. We will get correspondence back from the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht about the implementation of the narrow recommendations, and we will suggest that there should be wider lessons for the Department and for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. Given the fact that the unit made reference to this in the report, we want to know what consideration was given to that matter. No. 2467 is correspondence from Mr. Derek Moran, Secretary General of the Department of Finance, dated 14 October. The letter responds to our request for information on fees paid to barristers. We agreed to note and publish this two weeks ago. This...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy MacSharry and then Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: These are GPs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is a good question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Correct.