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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will put-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We always do. Next week, we will go through a draft work programme for the January-February period and we will have that on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is out there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It will be in the new year as there is only a fortnight of the session left. We will go through our work programme for the new year next week and try to sign off on priorities from the committee's point of view and the sequence in which we want to deal with them. That is noted and published. Sorry, it is not. The letter was from an individual and we can discuss it in the context of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: As I say, we will send them that schedule and we will keep at them to get it fully completed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We move to the next item, the accounts and statements received since our previous meeting, of which there are six to be reviewed. On the Social Insurance Fund, there is a clear audit opinion. The report deals with the estimated level of irregular payments in respect of certain Social Insurance Fund schemes which are material. We will be discussing this at our meeting this afternoon, so we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are writing directly to the chairperson of the board, whose responsibility it is to ensure there is a contract in place for the chief executive, asking him to explain the position and to regularise this, and to give us the reason this has continued for all of those years. The next is the office of the regulator of the national lottery, for which there is a clear audit opinion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We were never given a figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We note that. The next item is the national lottery fund, which has a clear audit opinion. The next is the export guarantee account, for which there was no turnover for 2017. It has a clear audit opinion. Next, the National Training Fund was established to raise the skills of those in employment, to give jobseekers relevant skills and to facilitate lifelong learning, and it has received a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, including the broadband plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, that is the last meeting before Christmas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Education and Skills. We will ask it to bring CIÉ people along.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is there a separate fund for school transport? The funding of Bus Éireann comes from different sources. There is free travel, the subsidy-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The issue that is always raised is that the funding for school transport is cross-subsidising other services, or vice versa. I do not know and it is very hard to find out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: When the Comptroller and Auditor General was doing his report, did he deal only with the Department of Education and Skills?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy did not go to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Obviously, the Department of Education and Skills is the line Department for the Vote.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Education and Skills will be here and it will have a representative from Bus Éireann with it. We know the Minister's nominees on the board have a fiduciary duty to the board, not to us. I presume there is a liaison officer between the Department and Bus Éireann.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is the person we need.