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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is a special job in itself. There are different motorways throughout the country. I suspect everyone will have a close look at the motorway that relates to his or her own geographic area. If we did that among ourselves, we would probably cover them all. We will note and publish that large file of documentation. I do not know how much is in it or the conclusions. There are 546...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We raised this previously. The money goes into the company's revenue. It is treated as revenue in terms of corporation tax but I believe the private sector toll booths are subject to VAT. There is a VAT issue in respect of the private operators and an element of that would have to go through VAT.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It goes into the profits.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I understand that the toll on the M50 is VAT free. There is some issue regarding that. We will ask the Department to clarify the position regarding VAT.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Something was mentioned previously. We will check it out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: For the surplus.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to Transport Infrastructure Ireland to get further information on that issue, which has been raised previously.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. 1499B is correspondence from Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, providing an information note on Circular 7/2015 regarding the timely production and submission of accounts of bodies audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General and laying them before the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Comptroller and Auditor General is issuing his report...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. The Deputy will wait and see.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have not. I left this one to the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy wants the committee to write to the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Department directly on that issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Connolly knows that an official who is a member of the board of directors will be told he or she has a fiduciary duty to the company and cannot discuss the matter with the committee outside a board meeting, or even with the Minister. That conflict arises for State appointees to State boards.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write directly to the Department on that issue. The next item of correspondence is No. 1501 from Mr. Derek Moran, Secretary General of the Department of Finance, in response to the committee's request for a note on the appointment process for the investment committee of the NTMA. We note and publish that. There is a straightforward procedure for those appointments. The next...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Commitments were given out of thin air and money was locked up in the account. We will consider the report and ask the secretariat, which is working on the periodic report, to go through this issue as part of that process and we will come back to it as part of our periodic report. I stand corrected - we have already reported on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have received an extensive report but have not yet read it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will hold it over until next week, the following week or thereafter. The next item is No. 1505 from Ms Oonagh McPhilips, the then acting Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality, dated 3 August providing a response to information requested on the implementation of the Toland report and progress on the implementation of change in the Irish Prison Service. Can we agree...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We are dealing with correspondence received since July.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Point taken.