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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 336. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hip operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9309/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 337. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be given an appointment in hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9310/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 594. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications for funding under a scheme (details supplied) by county; the amounts that have been approved in respect of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9295/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ms Mary Henry, deputy director of audit. We will hold over the minutes of the last meeting until the next meeting as I just have not had time to review them yet, and we will hold over matters arising. There are three categories of correspondence. The first...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will write back and ask for a detailed explanation of the timing, from the time the report was completed, and the discussions they had with Enet last summer when Enet expected it to be published within weeks, and what was the particular reason for the delay. We want to come back to the broadband issue in our work programme as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is right on that. We are writing back to the Department on that specific issue. The next item is No. 1968 from the Valuation Office and pertains to the Harold's Cross stadium. The Commissioner of Valuation has made it clear that there was no contact whatsoever with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine during the process of valuing Harold's Cross. We have to accept...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Fine and I thank the Deputy. An attachment came with the letter with the heading, national broadband plan state aid compliance update on the mapping of Eir's rural extension plan, dated 8 March 2017. There is a suggestion that we do not publish this because it is marked privileged and confidential. However, they have redacted sections of the report, produced by PwC, on pages 6, 7 and 8,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: For housekeeping purposes at this stage we will note and publish the letter from Robert Watt, No. 1983B and the letter from Paul Quinn, chief procurement officer, No.1984B. We also note the letter from the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, No. 1990B and the letter from the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, No. 1991B. We will note and publish those.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: They can bring in Secretaries General too.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy referring to officials of the Department of Health?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy said the Department of Health when he meant the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Watt writes "As is normal". Usually when we issue an invitation to a Secretary General, he or she picks the staff who will also attend. Equally, we sometimes invite specific people to attend.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: We regularly do that because it is such a big Department. We are specifying that we want Mr. Paul Quinn to attend. I am sorry to ask the Comptroller and Auditor General-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. They would often be here. In what year was the Office of Government Procurement established?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Our issue with Mr. Quinn, which he has not dealt with in the two weeks since it was raised, is that he never informed us in his previous letter that he was a member of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. I found it disconcerting that he was involved and he never told us. He still has not told us two or three weeks later. That is the first issue. When he was appointed to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Had that office been established at that stage?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General might be able to clarify this for us, though not necessarily at this moment. Perhaps he can send us a note tomorrow. When Mr. Quinn was first appointed to the board, was he an official of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or was he in a separate body?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: He had just got the post - that is fine. We are agreed on Mr. Watt's appearance here. We are specifying that we wish for Mr. Paul Quinn to attend, because we have written to him separately. We also want to hear from the officials who will be the liaisons between his Department and the health Vote, who would often be here in any event. In relation to the comment, I made a suggestion at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy mean the other committees?