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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: The grant fund programme is down €196,000 for other people because the council had to pay on the double in respect of this one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: What we will do is when we get the name of the company, we will get one of the officials or Mr. McCarthy's office to perform a Companies Registration Office, CRO, search to discover whether it was a company limited by share, by guarantee or whatever. We do not know. We will find out about the company. If it was a company, it will be a matter of public record. We will see where we stand in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will perform a search in respect of the company and the current state of the liquidation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Arts Council in the first instance. When we get the name, we will take it from there. We want to deal specifically with this issue. The statement that has been read out indicates that the Arts Council is putting procedures in place, but I consider that somewhat woolly. I would like to know what it has done in terms of checking the audits of every other organisation....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it was a big fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will draw a comparison in order to clarify the position. It is not unusual for a Department to advance funding to organisations to get them up and running. For example, we are all familiar with community employment schemes. They run for a year. They get funding for the first few months and then they get a payment every month and coming to the end of the scheme they must be audited and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: The last item is InterTradeIreland, which received a clear audit opinion. We note that as well. We will proceed quickly. The next item is the work programme. Today's programme is in front of us. Next week, we will be dealing with matters relating to housing. On 8 November, we will be dealing with the State Claims Agency in the context of cervical cancer and thalidomide. I want to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is at the bottom of the list, but there is no date. In the next week or so, we will try to schedule work out to the early part of next year on the basis that we are all here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss it. I am open minded as to our priorities regarding what we want to deal with. We will ask the secretariat to look at all the items that are on our schedule and to draw up a provisional draft.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: And then sold back to the State.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Getting a breakdown by hospital is a good suggestion too.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We do not want names.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: So we will put in bands. If a person is appearing in-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is no question of us asking for names or anything of that nature. I call on Deputies MacSharry and Connolly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is coming up as part of housing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We said we would deal with housing at two meetings - one concerning construction and the other concerning housing supports, such as rental supplement. The approved housing bodies are not available next week so they will be on the second day. They cannot all attend on the first day. There will be two meetings on housing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It will be at the second meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: A review by whom?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: On that point, I could mention HIQA's statutory review of the maternity unit at Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise, which found that there had been previous reviews, reports and recommendations but that they had been shared with nobody.