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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will include it as an item to be discussed with the HSE representatives. I have proposed that they will be coming in again shortly. There is a chapter in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report in connection with HSE primary care centres. Quite a lot has happened since HSE representatives where here to discuss last year's financial statements, particularly in the context of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is agreed. We will write to them and put them on notice. No. 2356C is correspondence from an individual, dated 8 August, who has made a detailed submission regarding the financial situation of Irish wind farms. Related to this are Nos. 2368C and 2370C, dated 8 August, correspondence from individuals also requesting the committee to review the submission. We know this matter is not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is Deputy Munster referring to the correspondence from Deputy O'Reilly?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will forward both No. 2366C, the letter from the individual, and No. 2385C from Deputy O'Reilly, and ask for a comment on both. No. 2369C, dated 3 September, is from an individual concerning the national broadband plan. The correspondent has copied the committee on a submission to several Ministers and to the Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment. We have looked...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The correspondent is concerned about the frequent nature of the repairs and whether they are necessary. His view seems to be that the road is fine but the city council has so much money that workers come around every so often to do repairs.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The correspondent is saying that the repairs are a waste of money, which is probably why he wrote to us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will not get into the issue of funding of local authorities today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is what he is saying. There are many counties where people are crying out for some of that extra money. We will move on. No. 2391C, dated 20 September, is from a member of the Irish Greyhound Board. The individual is of the view that he was unfairly mentioned during our meeting with representatives of Bord na gCon on 19 September. Having reviewed the transcript of the meeting, I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes, the person is entitled to write to us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are not publishing the letter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Connolly is right that the person is entitled to write to the committee. I am dealing with it as Chairman. As I said, I would have raised the issues that were raised had no other member done so. We do not publish correspondence from individuals because to do so would assign parliamentary privilege to that correspondence. All the category C correspondence from private individuals is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It relates to flood relief, which I assume is a matter for the Office of Public Works, OPW.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am happy to write to the OPW requesting that it respond to the correspondence. I thank the Deputy for her suggestion, which is a better way of dealing with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: No. 2401C, dated 22 March, is from an individual concerning a decision of Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, and related requirements. The individual is in a difficult situation, which we all have encountered with constituents, as a consequence of SUSI's requirement that applicants provide financial information in respect of both their parents. Even where a student's parents are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Go raibh maith agat. We will write to that Department. No. 2414C, dated 22 September, is from Mr. Allen Morgan, who was recently in touch regarding the administration of his correspondence to the committee. The secretariat is providing him with clarifying information in that regard. In this correspondence, he asks the committee to consider a particular matter as part of our examination...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have asked for that; we have not got that reply. We only asked the Valuation Office for that last week. The petrol retailers gave us a copy of the Valuation Office's instruction on the issue of the commercial value of a car park. One of the major supermarkets could own the facility and rent out the units. Is the car park included in its rateable valuation? Where it is owned by a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. That is what we want to know. I think the Valuation Office will understand what we are asking. If the person writing the letter on behalf of the committee is not sure, I can send him or her a copy of the transcript. The committee can be blamed if the person does not understand it. No. 2416, dated 26 September 2019, is from an individual regarding the 2017 Comptroller and Auditor...