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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is an excellent chart at the end of that document. It shows the number of days lost in each Department with the average being ten. There are clearly some outliers and some Departments with very low numbers of days lost to sick leave based on the 2017 figures. We will publish that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Officials from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection will be here in half an hour. After the Prison Service, that Department's level of sick leave is second highest at 13. We can put that question to the Secretary General as soon as the witnesses come in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to that topic. The Department recently issued a report on the operation of protected disclosures. It was one of the poorest reports I have ever seen published. It had no engagement with any person who had made a protected disclosure. It looked like a desktop exercise among senior officials. We will come back to that. We have noted it before.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can address the absences with the line Departments as the officials come along. We have no problem coming back to that issue again. We note and publish that. Correspondence No. 1743 is from the chief executive officer of IDA Ireland, providing information requested by the committee regarding the annual employment survey. We had asked for details of the annual employment survey....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It would be the CEO.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: What is the confirmation process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The letter states it is carried out by an agency on behalf of IDA Ireland and not by the organisation directly. We can ask for more specific details on verification of the figures. Correspondence No. 1744 is from the chief executive of HIQA, providing an update requested by the committee on HIQA's examination of the cost of agency staff. In that letter, he says there has been a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will get the copy of the workforce plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, that is very important. The next letter was from the HSE confirming that the findings and recommendations of the Hannaway report took the form of a presentation. We had asked for a fully copy of the report but the HSE says there is only a slide presentation and that is the full extent of the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Nothing else seems to have been prepared.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We should also ask whether when the report was presented minutes were taken of the presentation and the discussion on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was a slide presentation but there must have been some discussion on that. Perhaps a minute was taken.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, those that were relevant to that. No. 1748 is correspondence received from the Revenue Commissioners and dated 26 November providing clarification. We spotted a wrong decimal point of a matter of 100 million in one of their letters - a part of our periodic report - and they have corrected the figures. We will publish a report next week and the correct figures will be in it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. I think the amount in dispute was €7.01 million but it should have been counted in hundred millions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have the correct figures for our periodic report. It shows we are watching carefully. No. 1749 from the Higher Education Authority is dated 26 November and provides information requested for our forthcoming periodic report. It is a table relating to the Munster university costs. On the second page attached, it says the committee was looking for a breakdown of direct and indirect costs....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: That was No. 1749.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have just covered it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We asked for a breakdown of the costs between the direct costs and the indirect costs. We wanted that for the periodic report and the HEA has separated it between direct and indirect costs. That is all it has done. We have not gone any further.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask again for further.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will conclude based on the information we have to publish a report, but we can include a sentence to say we have now requested a further breakdown and await it at the time of publication.