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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is that the site at Naas?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is why I highlighted this letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Could Mr. McCarthy please explain trans-shipment? Is it between the North and South and abroad?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am looking at the last page of the letter again from Mark Griffin, the Secretary General. He states that 27 historical municipal landfill sites have received Exchequer funding, which includes remediation work. He states that 11 sites have been completed, which means 16 have not been completed. We will ask for a list of the 11 that have been completed and the cost to date. There are 16...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Defence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write immediately for specifics on it. If work is ongoing this year, we will put it on our work programme but it probably will be the autumn. Let us see what happens over the next six months but we will come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask what has been recouped in the letter about the private sites. Some outfits just dumped it and went bust. We know that too. We will ask them what has been recouped. He should know the position. We will send the letter straight away but we will come back to it in more detail later in the year. The next item of correspondence is No. 1194B from Neil McDermott of the Higher...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane indicated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are dealing with this item of correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It goes without saying that while we cannot impose sanctions, perhaps in our next report we might be in a position to recommend and specify some type of sanction that would be implemented by the relevant Department. We will not implement it but we can make a recommendation that there be some sanctions. We might even specify them at that stage. My instinct is our main challenge would be to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: This is a broader issue. With regard to the HSE sanction, all Secretaries General should see what Tony O'Brien did. He said to every funded organisation that unless accounts were submitted on time, there would be a delay in funding until accounts were submitted. All those organisations came into line. What if the Department of Education and Skills were to do that with everybody under its...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Cullinane, and then we will try to move on to the next section.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I think we should send a letter back to Mr. Watt asking him for the date of when that new circular on official entertainment is going to be updated, telling him we think it is appropriate to develop specific guidelines and that he might commence work on that straight away. The next item of correspondence is No. 1204 from Mr. William Beausang, assistant secretary of the Department of Public...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: On this particular issue I think the public will take some satisfaction from an achievement by the Committee of Public Accounts. Some people ask what actually happens as a result of our meeting. We had the meeting here last year. As long as any of us have been here, we have never seen a post-project review of a public private partnership project. It has not happened. We had quite a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is talking about the viability of future projects and the line Department is the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. I call Deputy Farrell and we will decide in a moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps it could be the other committee in the first instance. Something might come back to us but it is definitely an interesting note. The line Department is probably the more appropriate one at this stage. We will note and publish that. The next item of correspondence is No. 1200C from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 23 March...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We previously invited the Secretaries General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of the Taoiseach along with the head of the unit to appear before us. They are Accounting Officers. That has to happen. The Taoiseach will appear before the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach at 10 a.m. to deal with the Estimates. No...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I appreciate that, and best of luck with the report. I heard the Deputy on "Morning Ireland". The strategic communications unit is an item on our agenda and work programme and we will come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The answer is that the Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach produced a report. When he appears before us, because he is obliged to do so, we will put that direct question to him.