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Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant Closure (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: 649. To ask the Minister for Health when the motorised transport grant scheme will be replaced with a new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12774/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Closures (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: 652. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the consultation being carried out by his Department in respect of the report submitted by the HSE in respect of the future of the accident and emergency department at Portlaoise Hospital; the meetings carried out to date as part of the consultation; the length of time it is expected to continue; the person chairing this process; when...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Closures (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he reconciles plans from the HSE to close accident and emergency services in Portlaoise General Hospital in view of the overcrowding in accident and emergency departments throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12822/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: 671. To ask the Minister for Health if a MRI for an person (details supplied) will be arranged based on correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12910/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Leader Programmes Data (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: 911. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount that has been spent from Leader on projects in County Carlow; the number of projects pending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12197/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: 1044. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons who owned a house and have gone through a legal divorce are eligible to apply for a loan under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12397/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: I welcome two new members of the committee, Deputy Kate O'Connell who replaces Deputy Noel Rock and Deputy Jonathan O'Brien who replaces Deputy Mary Lou McDonald. We look forward to working with both of them. I thank Deputies Mary Lou McDonald and Noel Rock for their contributions to the work of the committee. I believe Deputy Mary Lou McDonald was a member of the committee for seven...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is a good idea. We have a letter in hand from Deputy Mary Lou McDonald wishing the committee all the best in its work. We will write back to her and also to Deputy Noel Rock to thank them on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, is present as a permanent witness at the committee. He is joined by Mr. John Crean, deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will come to that matter when we discuss the work programme. Item No. 3 on the agenda is correspondence, of which there are three categories. The first is briefing material and opening statements. As members can see, there is a large bundle of correspondence to be dealt with. We will move as quickly as we can, but a few items will merit a more detailed discussion. Items No. 1117...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: I will call Deputies Cullinane and Catherine Murphy in that order.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Does it relate to this batch of correspondence?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is part of the current periodic report we are compiling and it is covered in that. We have asked for updates before we finalise our periodic report, which is nearly there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: A final question from Deputy Kelly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Would the Comptroller and Auditor General care to comment on that? Obviously as part of his work, he examined the risk register.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: What is his understanding of this committee's entitlement to a copy of the risk register for the various organisations whose accounts come under our remit?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Fine, but we are talking about the administrative processes and controls. We will ask for that information again.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes, we asked for this information last November.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will give them ten days. A week is a bit tight. We will ask again about the legal advice and when we get the reply within the fortnight, we can take that up with our own parliamentary legal adviser. The other issue that has come up a number of times is criticism of this committee, which is fashionable in some quarters and systemic in others. In that context, I am going to ask the...