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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is not. We have said this before. Not only is the Department not in compliance but it does not even have a database to help with compliance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to it as part of our work on housing. Some of the city and county managers will be coming before us soon, as will representatives of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. We are not finished with the housing topic yet. The Deputy is right to keep it in focus. Furthermore, in relation to HAP we asked for data on the number of individual landlords or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Sorry, there were 40,835 HAP properties. There were 24,456 landlords who had one single property while 4,010 had more than one property. A total of 3,402 landlords had between two and five properties, 308 landlords had between six and ten properties and 300 landlords had in excess of ten properties. There was one landlord who had 241 properties in the HAP scheme. We will put that into the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: My reading of the letter from the Office of Government Procurement is that there is a procedure in place but if a project is specific and unique and does not fall within the routine terms, it can seek a "derogation" from going through the normal procedures. Mr. Quinn's letter says that a derogation, if agreed, does not approve the approach or strategy of the contracting authority but simply...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: They do not have to follow-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: The contracting authority is the body responsible and we will be meeting the contracting authority in public session shortly. We will have to concentrate on it because ultimately, it is responsible. It sounds as if the Office of Government Procurement is good for the little jobs but if a big job comes along-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is above their pay grade. That is what they are trying to tell us. The next item is No. 1900B from Mr. Gerard Callihane, head of finance at the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: He has provided a note on the extent of the role of the NDFA in procurement arrangements for the national paediatric hospital. Has the Comptroller and Auditor General had an opportunity to look at this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is it not obliged to get involved under its own rules?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask whether the agency has a statutory responsibility to get involved. Mr. Callihane is saying that the agency has not been involved since 2014. He said that it was involved with the issue in the context of the Mater Hospital site, where funds had to be written off.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: He actually says that the NDFA has had no involvement in the project since 2016, when the agency's formal engagement as adviser to the HSE ended. We will write back to the NDFA and ask it to outline the circumstances in which that engagement ended and to explain why it ended. We will also raise the matter directly with the HSE. We will ask the executive's representatives who will be with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is private individual correspondence, No. 1860, under section C. We will note it and publish it. That is my response to the broader point in that I could foresee people trying to continue the debate that started last year that suggested the Committee of Public Accounts should not discuss anything because it might influence something else down the road. We are not going there. We will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy happy to have it published?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: It came from the Deputy personally rather than from a Department. We will publish that. The one remark I would make is that this information clearly outlines the extensive background in regard to the canteen or mess facilities, as they are called. We asked for that on the day. As Chairman, I am disappointed because I am satisfied that the witnesses could have provided information to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: On the day, when Deputy MacSharry asked about the mess committee, the issue was raised with several witnesses from the Prison Service and no information of any significance was forthcoming on the day. Now, it appears the matter was dealt with by the Labour Relations Commission in 2011 and there are massive negotiations between the union and the Prison Service on the matter. I feel all of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will come to that when we receive a reply, which I presume will not be too long more in coming. The next item is No. 1891 from the managing director of BT Ireland, who is not available to attend the meeting but will have representatives here on the day, which is fine. The next item is No. 1894 from an individual, dated 24 January 2019, in regard to information provided by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. He is bound to be here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have the key people. He is here, along with Jim Curran. I take the point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. The next item is a report on the accounts and statements received since the last meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: It has not arrived yet.