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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have had a Deloitte report, Thorn No. 1 report, Thorn No. 2 report and the HEA's conclusions. The Comptroller and Auditor General has deemed that it is necessary for him to compile a further report. Therefore, we will not accept any recommendations from anybody on the matter until we see his conclusions and his report comes back before the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Around that time we will meet the lady who wrote - the whistleblower. We will decide closer to the time. I am cautious about having a meeting in public but we may choose to do so. We will meet her but the format has yet to be agreed. Does Deputy MacSharry wish to comment on this topic?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have not reached there yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Can we agree on this matter? To an extent the ball is in the court of the Comptroller and Auditor General while he completes his report. There is no point in us trying to pre-empt his report by us doing anything in the meantime. I think that is the sensible thing to do and the matter will be placed on our work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: I think that we will just wait for the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. Do members want the committee to write to the HEA in the meantime?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will we wait until the Comptroller and Auditor General produces his findings?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: I propose we write back to Dr. Graham Love, who is the chief executive of the HEA, and enclose two things: first, a transcript of the discussion that takes place today, and second, draw his attention to the fact that the committee awaits a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General and, therefore, we cannot accept or reject his letter but will note that we received it and we will reach...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: I think we will write to her promptly and acknowledge that the committee has agreed to meet her, in principle. The format and timing will be discussed with her but we will agree, in principle, to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have decided what to do with No. 1068 after a discussion. The next item, No. 1083, is correspondence from an individual dated 9 February 2018. It requests the committee to investigate the correctness of the opinions stated by the local authority in a Kerry County Council planning zoning document, which is attached. I printed it for myself, and as the document is 200 pages in length, I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. We got an update that we have already sent to the individual, and this is a further response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have it in front of us and we will get the secretariat to email the response because we have had it before us previously. If the Deputy has some correspondence he feels the committee has not received-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: It probably is. The secretariat will email it to the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: If Deputy MacSharry wants to raise it next week he can, if he is not happy. We have two items of correspondence, Nos.1085 and 1089, dated 13 February, from an individual in respect of overcharging by a bank, the bank's response and matters related to the appointment of a receiver. The matter is outside of the remit of the committee and I propose we advise the corespondent to contact the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Correspondence No.1086 dated 7 February is from an individual regarding a planning matter in Roscommon County Council. We have only received a copy. We will note it. We are not required to do anything. Correspondence No.1088 dated 14 February is from an individual in respect of expenditure relating to the Irish language. The individual questions whether value for money is being achieved....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy want us to write directly to the Pensions Authority with those two specific questions?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will address both questions directly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Pardon?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask and get a reply. We will come back then. We will note that and we will follow it up with the specific questions raised. Correspondence No. 1092C from an individual dated 16 February regarding the sale of land by the congregation of Christian Brothers at Clonkeen College in Blackrock in County Dublin. The individual wrote to the committee regarding this matter last year. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are finishing at the vote regardless, because we are here in the afternoon with Revenue and the Department of Finance. Correspondence No. 106 from-----