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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when funding will be provided for flooding relief works at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43465/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Indemnity Scheme (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 403. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to re-examine the conditions by which consultants can prescribe medicinal cannabis for persons with Dravet syndrome in such a way as to not make them personally liable for their entire treatment thereafter which understandably makes them reluctant to prescribe medicinal cannabis in these situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 404. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding providing medical treatment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43447/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 409. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Treatment Purchase Fund will approve funding for a procedure to be carried out for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43507/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 470. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43795/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 598. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason a project (details supplied) was not approved for funding under the town and village renewal scheme 2018; the reason its application was not approved; if there is a review mechanism and an appeal system in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43476/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Applications (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) will be re-examined with a view to approving the back to education allowance in view of the fact that the person was only 11 days short of the required number of days, which is an administrative rule in her Department rather than a statutory rule, and in further view of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ms Josephine Mooney, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. We will hold over the minutes until the next meeting and matters arising. The next item on the agenda is correspondence received since the last...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. We have agreed to publish it. We have not come to it but we will in a moment. It is in the correspondence list. I do not think that was the one list. We will deal with it in a moment. The next category is B - correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow-up to Committee of Public Accounts meetings and other items for publishing. A number of items were held...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over for discussion at the next meeting. We have noted it, we did have some discussion on it, but the question we must deal with next week is whether we give parliamentary privilege to publishing the full document. No. 1638 B from Mr. Martin Bourke, assistant secretary, Office of Public Works, comprising a property services agreement regarding accommodation for the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Oh God, no.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I think that was provided to the previous committee. We will dig it out and circulate it to the members and return to it at the next meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: There was one exception.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. There is no general policy but that they can specifically do things that they do not do generally.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is correct but what I want to do for now is to circulate the more detailed response that he gave to the previous committee. It is on the record, and we will circulate it to members during the week and return to it. If we are unhappy with his response, we will take it from there. Let us just read the detailed response that he gave to the previous committee. Some of it might...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We agreed that we will publish that letter from the Department of Education and Skills. The next item is No. 1642B from Mr. Derek Finnegan of the parliamentary affairs division in the Department of Health, providing an update requested by the committee regarding the value for money review of public nursing homes. The letter is essentially saying that it will be next year before the review...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is why I specifically raised this the last day.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We would be bringing them in again. I ask members to bear with me because we touched on this the last day-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I want to read the highlights of this into the public record so that the public will know what we are talking about. There were three cases listed in a document that we got the last time with the Tax Appeals Commission with amounts totalling €361 million that were in dispute and we asked for a note on each of the three cases. The first case has an amount of €138 million under...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is fine and our job is to keep public pressure on this and to keep the Tax Appeals Commission hopping because these things can just rumble on for years. We have a duty to ensure we do that, especially now that resources have been allocated to do the job. We only highlighted the top 67 in our meeting and there are thousands more smaller cases behind in the system, but the 67 cases are...