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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That will be discussed at the committee discussing the Estimates for the Department of Justice and Equality rather than at the Committee of Public Accounts. The next debate on the funding for that will take place at the Select Committee on Justice and Equality when it discusses the Estimates for the coming year. I propose that we write to the individual accordingly. Can we close the matter...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will list consultancy costs on our work programme. I do not know precisely how we will do it, but we will put it down as an item on our work programme. The next item on the agenda is financial statements. Since our last meeting, only one set of financial statements has been laid before the Oireachtas. That relates to Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh, NUI Galway. It got a clear...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is true. The next item is the work programme, which is displayed on the screen. Today, we have the financial statements for the National Transport Authority. Next week, we will have Caranua before the committee and the week after that, we will have the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine in to deal with forestry grants. On 31 October, we will have the Courts Service before...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: No, we will come to the Deputy in a moment.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will just finish the issue of carbon tax first.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I ask the secretariat to circulate the CSO report on fossil fuels and similar subsidies for the convenience of members. Mention was made of Ireland possibly facing fines. We have not faced fines to date and there is no prospect of facing fines at the moment. That is solely because we spend taxpayers' money in advance buying the unused carbon credits of other countries through the emissions...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will come back to this next week. It is on our list.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We made contact with the organisation. Its representatives are scheduled to appear before another committee and we did not want to bring them in here at the same time, with no major interval. That makes sense, because it is not good for the Oireachtas to have the same people in one committee one week and then in here the following week. We have made contact with Sport Ireland but we have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputy MacSharry.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We spoke about that last week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Can the Comptroller and Auditor General help us in any way?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: As a result of this matter being raised here last week, the Department has contacted the secretariat and we are going to get a detailed briefing note in the coming days. We will have it from the Department-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Believe it or not, people do watch what we say here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It contacted us. We are getting a detailed note from it and we will have it in advance of next week's meeting. That will probably be very helpful and the Deputy will be able to take it up further. There is information on its way to us now as a result of the National Oil Reserves Agency issue being discussed here at the previous meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. We are told it is on its way to us. This is only a little anecdote.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: People do watch the committee proceedings. Here is a funny one that I am saying in a light-hearted way. During the discussion with the Data Protection Commissioner here a couple of weeks ago, I happened to mention in public session that I had never needed a public services card and did not have one. I got a lovely letter from an assistant secretary in the Department who, having watched the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am years away from that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is the suggestion and we will have a note. By raising the issue the Deputy has done a good day's work.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We may do that but we will get the briefing note for next week and then decide whether to bring it in. If it is a policy issue, we might have to bring in the Department as well. We will return to this topic next week. Before we conclude, I want to go into private session to deal with correspondence on one particular issue. We will then suspend for ten minutes to allow the witnesses to...