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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will address that matter when we discuss the work programme.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss the matter when we reach the work programme in a few minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: I accept the Deputies' proposal because that is how we work so many third level issues into our work programme. We will discuss the matter when we complete our discussion on correspondence. Item No. 1170B is correspondence received from Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general, Health Service Executive, enclosing a briefing note on the procurement process for legal services, as requested by the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is good to hear that. We will note and publish that item of correspondence. The final category of correspondence is category C which includes correspondence from private individuals and any other correspondence. Item No. 1138C is correspondence received from an individual about St. Angela's College, Sligo. Item No. 1144C, correspondence received from Deputy Marc MacSharry, refers...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Having reviewed the correspondence, it essentially concerns a legal dispute. The individual has forwarded a number of solicitors' letters in which a number of allegations are made. If he believes the allegations, he should pursue the matter further through the courts. If he believes there are criminal actions, he should report them to the Garda. That is not our function. For our part and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: How long ago was that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: It predates-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: On the original SIPTU-FÁS matter, it was a HSE issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Therefore, it predates 2014 and is now in the hands of An Garda Síochána which is where we are leaving it. The committee is not the Garda ombudsman. The next item is No. 1160C, correspondence, dated 26 February 2018, received from Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, thanking the committee and the secretariat as she has stepped down from the committee. We shall note and publish the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: In the previous letter he sent, he declined to attend on the specific day in question, rather than refusing outright to come before the committee. Following receipt of the documentation about alleged collusion and price-fixing, Deputy Thomas Byrne sent it to the to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, which has investigated the matter independently of us and concluded that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will invite Nursing Homes Ireland to come before us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We would also have to bring in the National Treatment Purchase Fund, because it set the prices.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: That would be the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss it when we come to the work programme in a few minutes. The Deputy has made a relevant point. The next item is 1163, correspondence from Deputy Jack Chambers attaching a copy of a document relating to a document he received on the GoSafe speed detection contract, which we discussed at our last meeting. We will note the correspondence and inform the Deputy that we have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: No, we discussed this only at the last meeting. No. 1164 is correspondence from myself enclosing an internal audit report on the subject of the activation and family support programme carried out by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I was very concerned about the content of the report and I propose that we write to the Department for a detailed note on what actions...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will put the Deputy's suggestion about historical cases into the letter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: It took tremendous perseverance on the part of the individual concerned. A former district justice carried out the report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: He was justified in his perseverance. The next item is No. 1166, from Deputy Catherine Murphy on Garda compensation payments. We will hold that over because the Deputy is not here today. She has proposed that we write to the Garda Commissioner for further information on the costs of, and a breakdown of the figures for, legal advice and to explain the notable differences between the amounts...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat to supply the information to the Deputy. If she is satisfied, that is fine but if she wants further information we will agree to write for that. The next item of correspondence is No. 1167 from Mr. Brendan Ryan, CEO of the Courts Service, of 9 March on an independent review by Mazars regarding the wards of court financial transaction of February 2018. I thank...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: In the first instance we will write to the HSE for a copy of this report because we have only seen the media report on it. Based on our previous experience with Console, I expect we will get a copy of it but that it will be sent to us on a confidential basis and will not be for publication. To explain to people watching why that is the case, a report carried out by internal auditors is...