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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Courts Service deals only with the cash handed in to the court poor box. What we are really highlighting is that there were two other lines of funding, directly to charities or local organisations or via the Probation Service, that do not go through the poor box at all. That is the essence of the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Each District Court has its own.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The local judge has the say in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next item comprises Nos. 1211, 1214, 1219, 1220 and 1224, correspondence from a company called Drumderry Aggregate relating to St. Conleth's community college, Newbridge, and a number of health and safety. The matter was dealt with on several occasions. The Department has stated that the mandatory tests in respect of St. Conleth's were provided and the Health and Safety Authority has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The man was dismissed by the Government.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: He wrote again yesterday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Probably ten or 15. He wrote again yesterday. We want to look at yesterday's correspondence, which I received only last night-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is very limited. It was a Government decision. The matters in regard to the dismissal of a prison officer went before the Cabinet. The individual has been informed of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will look at the other information. I do not see the role for this committee, to be truthful, but we will not close off the case until we consider yesterday's correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. We just received correspondence last night and have not read it yet. The man has written to us three times in the past week. We did not get an opportunity to read the two items that arrived in the past couple of days. When we do so, we will come back to the matter next week. No. 1216, dated 7 April, is from an individual and concerns St. Angela's College, Sligo, Limited. Can we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The secretariat will. That is guaranteed. Just for the record, that was just today's bundle of correspondence. The next item is statements of accounts received since the last meeting. It is very straightforward. The NTPF has a clear audit opinion. There is a reference to the pension costs. On the Legal Aid Board, there is a replacement of an incorrect version we referred to last...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The whole lot.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next item is the work programme, which has been circulated. There is no significant update since the previous meeting. RTÉ has confirmed its representatives are attending and members can see the full details of what is planned. Attendance has yet to be confirmed in relation to a few of the later items. There is nothing new on that. Next week, we are engaging with the Department...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: CIT is at the back where we have the outstanding matters. We have ETBs, the Cork spin-out companies and a full group of education issues on the back page. There are one or two gaps and we have to decide how we will combine all the education issues over a couple of meetings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have one meeting scheduled for third level education on 14 June. Some of those will come in on that date.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: As a committee, we will try to agree how to handle those colleges.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: That has been requested.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane, who is not here, had asked to deal with something in private session. As he is not here, we can deal with it later if the opportunity arises. Alternatively, we can hold it over to the next day. There being no other business, we will suspend for a moment to allow the witnesses to take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Seán Fleming: We resume in public session. There will be two sessions today, the first of which is to examine and discuss with officials from the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Chapter 5 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2016 report on fiscal transparency. In our second session we will examine matters relating specifically to the Department of Finance with...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018) Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy referring to chapter 5 on fiscal transparency?