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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Deirdre Quaid, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Deering. I want to hold over the minutes of the last meeting. I have not had an opportunity to review them. In terms of matters arising, we will move on from the minutes and go...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is clear from the opening statement, which will be discussed, that there is a big matter of principle here. We were assured that a report of some description would be concluded and published. However, we are now being told that the advice provided to the HEA makes it clear that this is "not possible". The authority has gone down a long road with a lot of people only to find, at the end...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: He will be here later.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will take it up with the Secretary General later.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will come back and review that after today's meeting. The points are all well made and noted. We will take the matter up with Mr. Ó Foghlú, the Secretary General later this morning. The next correspondence, Nos. 1881 and 1882, are the opening statements from the Department of Education and Skills, which we will note and publish. We will discuss them later this morning. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are coming back to that for definite as soon as we get the response on the broader issues. Next correspondence is No. 1837B from Mr. John O'Sullivan, Commissioner of Valuation, Valuation Office, dated 11 January 2019 providing information requested by the committee on the basis for the valuation of Harold's Cross stadium and comparisons used. We will note and publish this. People can...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: There is one concerning thing about the valuation as far as I am concerned. The price assumes that Dublin City Council, or the relevant local authority, would amend the zoning needed by material contravention of rezoning. Perhaps another public body was going to assist in the matter. Maybe that is not an unreasonable assumption. Anyone who has been a member of a local authority would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Let us cut to the chase and what I believe will be helpful in this case. It looks like a remarkable coincidence that €23 million was precisely what the Irish Greyhound Board required. That was what the parent Department, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, wanted for that site. It is a remarkable coincidence. We have no evidence yet, but I want the committee to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is agreed. We will move on. The Committee of Public Accounts established by the 32nd Dáil has reached item No. 1850 in correspondence and this is just letters received. The volume of letters sent out to follow up on various issues is a multiple of this. This far exceeds correspondence received by all other Oireachtas committees combined since the 32nd Dáil was established....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will definitely discuss this matter because if the committee is to be thorough in its work - we are very thorough and exact in our interim reports as much as is humanly possible - we need a research facility specific to the committee. We will try to move through the correspondence as quickly as possible but we will come back to this. I call Deputy Cassells.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will leave it to the audit but I still want the committee's agreement that we seek the correspondence between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Valuation Office on the negotiations and the price settled for or sought. That might be helpful and I do not think the volume information would be too high. There will have been some transactions. I now ask the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will return to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: The next item of correspondence is No. 1839B from the HSE about Console staff. It corrects the wording of a previous letter and whether it referred to a person who was previously employed, an employed person or existing employees. It is only a technical question. We will note and publish it. No. 1846B is from the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills providing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is called waste tourism.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: This committee rightly went into the function and role of the Department. We are definitely publishing that and I believe some other committee or individual Deputies should certainly take it up. We have done our job by publishing this. We are not delving into the landfills again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will move on. However, I want to clarify an issue that I might have glossed over. I say to those interested in the recycling issue the news is not half as good as I read out a moment ago. The table covers the 2.7 million tonnes of waste in the country in the year. Recycling was 34% and recycling involved in compost and digestion was 7%. In fact the recycling was only 41%. It goes on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Grand. I will finish on this item. Members will indulge me on the issue of the RTÉ2 +1 channel. We have brilliant news. The letter states:In June 2018, RTÉ made a formal request to the Department for the extension of RTE One+ 1 service and the introduction of a new service, RTE2 +1. The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) was asked to conduct a Sectoral Impact Assessment on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Most of this relates to communications and those type of issues aside from the waste which is part of our broadband discussions and that whole debate because they affect that area and they operate-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is fine.