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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will ask the parliamentary legal adviser to give us a note on this item, which is cropping up all the time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will ask the internal parliamentary legal adviser to clarify the brief. This is an issue. We will try to move on. The next item on the agenda is the financial statements and accounts that have been received since the committee met on 15 November last. The only such document to be considered relates to the National University of Ireland. The old NUI is nearly wound up now. Its...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: In a reduced role. It is not over all the universities.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: The register for the Seanad elections is something else.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is the greatest book of fiction in Ireland. Anyway, we will come back to that one again.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: For graduates.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Problem solved. It is over to you.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am only talking about the graduate panels.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is outside our remit. We will move on. We are behind.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I do not know anything about it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are running a little behind time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: The witnesses are coming in. There is no change in the work programme. We can come back and discuss it next week. Our next meeting will be with representatives of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. There will be a long agenda. If there are any specific issues that members want to see dealt with in the opening statement or in the briefing material that is to be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. It will be held in private session. We will reschedule it for next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. We will have a discussion on the issue next week in private session.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are dealing with chapter 15 of the 2017 annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on hepatitis C treatment in Ireland, on which we will have a discussion with representatives from the Department of Health and the HSE. We will also be looking at the HSE's efforts to prevent medical negligence cases. We had a meeting with the State Claims Agency on the management of medical...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. Mr. Breslin is free to attend that meeting. In the event that we do not finish before the vote, there might be a brief period when we require his presence in the afternoon after the voting schedule, but we do not know that yet. If we keep the meeting to the precise topic at hand today, we will try to complete it before the vote in order that we can do our private business in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I invite Mr. Breslin to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Connaghan. The speakers have indicated in the following sequence: Deputy Kate O'Connell who will have 20 minutes; Deputy David Cullinane who will have 15 minutes; Deputy Catherine Murphy who will have ten minutes; Deputy Jonathan O'Brien who will have ten minutes; Deputy Catherine Connolly who will have ten minutes and Deputy Marc MacSharry who will have ten minutes. I ask...