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

Seán Fleming: I say that in jest.

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

Seán Fleming: That is a good idea.

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

Seán Fleming: The National Museum of Ireland got a clear audit opinion. The Legal Services Regulatory Authority was established on 1 Oct 2016 and this is its first set of financial statements covering the 15 months to 31 December 2017. It got a clear audit opinion. The Law Reform Commission got a clear audit opinion. Oifig Chomisinéir na dTeangacha Oifigiúla got a clear audit opinion. Mary...

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

Seán Fleming: It is proposed for 14 March. The CSO is coming in for one slot and then we will try to complete our examination of the broadband programme, insofar as we can. I do not want it dragging on. Time is of the essence and there are moves afoot. The week of 23 March is a non-sitting week. The only other matter we have formally on the agenda, with a provisional date of 4 April, is the...

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

Seán Fleming: Yes. We will slot that topic in and perhaps next week we will confirm the exact topics. We will pencil in 28 March for the national paediatric hospital. In case there is any doubt, that contract was signed in 2017 so it is part of the audited statements before this committee and it is 100% within our remit. That is not a new item, it is an existing item. That is generally the work...

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

Seán Fleming: Yes, we will revisit that to make it fairer.

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

Seán Fleming: There are two matters. What I will definitely come back with is-----

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

Seán Fleming: I am sorry, I thought the Deputy asked me a question.

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

Seán Fleming: Sometimes, yes.

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

Seán Fleming: I am proposing for the next meeting, and we might discuss this in private session or in public session, to ask the secretariat for a list of every meeting since the Dáil resumed last September to see who was the first and second speaker. I want to see that. We had the view that it should be done by rotation so that everybody gets an equal opportunity. There will always be somebody who...

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

Seán Fleming: No, it is straightforward.

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

Seán Fleming: The other point I will make which I am sure members will all agree with is that on no occasion should the first and second speaker be from the same party. That is logical. There should be rotation and no party should get the first two spots but they can come in later on. Do we get where we want to go with this? Let us not over analyse this because the secretariat probably just made a stab...

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

Seán Fleming: We will come back on it next week.

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

Seán Fleming: No, do not go there.

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

Seán Fleming: Correct.

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

Seán Fleming: We will come back to it next week and we will work it through.

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

Seán Fleming: We can do that but the first step we would always take having got a letter where there are issues that are not adequately dealt with or not dealt with at all is that we would immediately write back. We always do that and then we go on from there.

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

Seán Fleming: We will come back to that in the work programme because it is not finished yet.

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

Seán Fleming: And the Oireachtas.

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

Seán Fleming: It is for the Oireachtas to pass legislation.