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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: It will be next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: No, we will discuss in private session about progressing the correspondence. We are going into private session in a few moments. Correspondence No. 1106 is from Deputy Shane Cassells in respect of our proposed engagement on funding of local authorities. We will discuss that as part of our work programme because we are bringing in the local authorities. That is the end of correspondence...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay, we will note that. The University of Limerick, a clear audited opinion, with attention drawn to the pensions issue again. The university procured a material level of goods and services during the year without competitive tendering. We will certainly be coming back to UL as part of our work programme. The next item is Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga. It monitors compliance with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: So it does not go into the Central Fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does money flow from the Central Fund to the National Lottery Fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Why would money go from Camelot to the Central Fund on the one hand and the National Lottery Fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does all the money go into the National Lottery Fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Surely, the National Lottery Fund receives the net amount after the prizes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: So who administers this fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is no issue with the national lottery, but I am just curious. I will get a copy of the accounts and look at them for the next day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have touched on an important issue. Again it is an issue because one would have assumed that the reporting of all public bodies would be in line with approved international accounting and financial standards, but the Minister can overrule that in legislation. On the legislation for the HSE, in particular, and other health organisations such as we have seen here, there is a statutory...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General draws attention to where the Ministers have passed legislation to the effect to ignore the international standards, so this is another example where the Comptroller and Auditor General highlights that. We will now move on to the work programme. We will come back to the third level colleges separately. I wish to highlight that on Thursday, 8 March there...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will come to that in a minute. I propose that in the morning we will deal with local government funding, transport funding, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, the Local Government Fund and the special report. In the afternoon, we will deal with the rest of the Department's Vote for housing, planning, community and local government separately. We can then let the people from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. There will be two halves to the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, as part of special funding in local government. We have received an information briefing note. Are we agreed to divide the work into two halves? We do not want to mix housing up with roads. Housing is an issue in its own right to be dealt with separately in the afternoon. The work programme is an ongoing item and people can come back on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Do the universities have separate funds to deal with taxpayer moneys and non-taxpayer moneys?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: SUSI.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will have the NTMA, the State Claims Agency and the HSE in on the same day. The biggest end of the State Claims Agency's work is medical negligence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will do that for the next meeting. We will be back to the work programme next week. Is there any other business?