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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the meantime. We are writing to the HSE because of the scale just to get its numbers. It is something the Comptroller and Auditor General covers in his annual audit. Having looked through the 40 Votes the Comptroller and Auditor General highlighted in the schedule, I found it troubling that there were 1,068 Revenue cases...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: As a first step, we will write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to get the rationale in writing. When we get that, we can then decide-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask it to outline the overall strategy on the National Shared Services Office and who was to be included and who was not to be included. We will get that in writing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Exactly. When we get that we can discuss it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have agreed what we are doing there. We have reached the final item arising from the minutes. We will hold this one over. We also asked the Comptroller and Auditor General to give us a report on the compliance with public procurement. It became crystal clear at last week's meeting that when the Comptroller and Auditor General highlights €500,000 or €1 million of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General gave us an excellent schedule of overpayments by Vote. Can he dig out the same figures from the appropriation accounts for the non-competitive procurement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Let us get that. We accept that is only for the Votes. We can take it from there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General will try to work on that schedule.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We do not need it next week. The Comptroller and Auditor General was very quick with the last one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is Vote by Vote, which will be a great help. We are covering ground that is not always obvious until we tease it out. The next item on the agenda is correspondence received. In category A we have Nos. 1061 and 1066 received from the Department of Rural and Community Development, providing a briefing document and the opening statement for today’s meeting. We will note these....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Ten or 11.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: For the record, the Kerry Group said that "in relation to the subject matter of your invitation, we do not believe we have anything specific to add to your enquiries in relation to the Irish Revenue Commissioners administration of corporate tax." The letter goes on to say that the Kerry Group had a diary problem. The Kerry Group is saying it believes it has nothing to add.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Somebody suggested that American Chamber Of Commerce Ireland. I do not know because we do not want to just get a PR job here. Somebody mentioned that name to me. Can we note and publish the letters? We are writing to GlaxoSmithKline as indicated. There will be a private briefing session next week for the benefit of members but we will then have a public session. I understand that we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The NTMA intends to have its 2017 accounts finished in May or June and we tend to have its representatives before the committee before the summer recess.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it is the HSE. We will need to have the HSE with us to discuss that issue. It is a phenomenal item at €2.7 billion. The Deputy said the legal costs are not the main issue-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have not seen any results from the open disclosure policy yet. The figures are going up. When we have representatives of the NTMA here, which will be scheduled close to the summer recess, we will invite the HSE. We might have just one session on that because we will have other NTMA business. However, the State Claims Agency and the HSE must be in the one room on that occasion. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will note it and the Deputy is free to raise it again at any stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: However, we will forward this to the organisation that contacted us. The next correspondence is No. 1060 from Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, dated 31 January 2018, in reply to a matter raised by an individual alleging waste of public moneys by Dublin City Council regarding the digging of bore holes on private property. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and we will forward the reply we received from the National Women's Council to the person who contacted us on the matter in the first instance. No. 1064 is from Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, regarding issues raised by the committee relating to the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board and possible safety issues at...