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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I hope Midlands 103 is tuned into this meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: Will it be effective next year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. O'Sullivan give us a copy of the note?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am sorry, but it is relevant. It will be a learning process.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. O'Sullivan. Is it agreed to dispose of chapter 11, Valuation Office, and Vote 16 of the appropriation accounts? Agreed. On behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses and the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff. At our next meeting at 9 a.m. on 1 February we will meet officials from the National Shared Services Office to discuss the management of salary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (23 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction work will begin on a new school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3208/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (23 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the spouse of a person can use the income thresholds for FIS as the means test figures to grant the spouse carer's allowance in circumstances in which the conditions are being met and if the spouse is in receipt of FIS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3200/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr Seamus McCarthy. I would like to begin by wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year. It is to be hoped that we will have be productive for as long or short a period as the committee is here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I might be repeating it next year. Who knows if we will still be here?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I have no idea what will happen in that regard. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meetings of 7 December and 14 December 2017. Are they agreed? Agreed. The next item is matters arising out of the minutes and I have two such matters to raise. At the meeting of 7 December, the committee requested that the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will come back to that next week because it is to be hoped that we will have further information on JobPath.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will hold that over.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will hold that item over and discuss those two topics on this day week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: In the meantime, there is a clear signal to the two Departments that the information should be provided before this day week or the Secretaries General will be here in person the following week. That is the template we are setting out from this point forward. A significant amount of correspondence has been received since the last meeting and we will go through it as efficiently as we can....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: Who commissioned the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: The HSE.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will come back to that. We will not discuss it any further while we are on this point, other than to say that we will come back to it. The same organisations crop up, whether the legal advisers, professional advisers or financial advisers. Sometimes a major company can provide different services to the same organisations. We will not do it today, but we might consider writing to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is known as management by consultants.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I say that facetiously. That is a facetious comment. We will come back to it. We will keep going with the correspondence. The point is made, particularly about the third level sector.