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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it is complementary.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Committee of Public Accounts has done a good job in highlighting the matter. During the course of our meeting very useful documentation was put into the public arena, which would be of interest to the people who follow those things. We fulfilled the role-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----in terms of public accounts by dealing with this matter publicly. The next Department is the Department of Justice and Equality. We said: "The Committee recommends that the Chief State Solicitor's Office ensures its oversight mechanisms are sufficient to prevent reoccurrence of this unacceptable waste of taxpayers' money". That relates to where the Probation Service took over a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Great.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Of course.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: As indicated, I think that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: On last week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. These matters were brought up only last week. We have written to RTÉ.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will follow up on the matter. We will note on our review of the report to follow up on the matter. The report is long and extensive with some good stuff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The main issue is that we have to contact the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, which just noted our items but did not accept any of our recommendations. Most of the other Departments accepted the vast majority of everything that we recommended and we are following up on the implementation of those recommendations. That completes our consideration of the largest item of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is quite right. While we will publish the letter, the committee is dissatisfied with the response. We will come back to the matter because we will be discussing housing after the Christmas break. We will see what mechanism can be used in having some people who are on the front line dealing with this issue because they deal with the housing assistance payment, HAP, the rental...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: And we might.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is quite right. Our second letter specifically stated that individual chief executives of some local authorities might come, not representing the County and City Management Association, CCMA, but in their own capacity to help us. That option is still available and we will discuss it again. They may not come wearing the CCMA hat, but we need to see the chief executives of some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Sick leave, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Some of them could be as a result of assaults.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: There are many of them.