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

Seán Fleming: Who are they? What do they do?

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

Seán Fleming: Members are free to download that set of accounts to find out what the organisation does because I am at a loss for words and do not know what to do.

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

Seán Fleming: Yes.

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

Seán Fleming: We note the statement. Members are free to download the set of accounts and peruse them. The next item is the Mental Health Commission. The note says it has a clear audit opinion. However, attention is drawn to the fact that the commission accounts for the costs of superannuation entitlements as they become payable. That is standard in the health sector. The next item is the Criminal...

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

Seán Fleming: We will circulate this note to all members because only a few of us are here today. We will ask members to contact the secretariat with their views if they feel such a trip would be beneficial in looking at the overseas bilateral aid programme and if members have a particular interest. We will not make a decision now. We will circulate an information note to all members and will discuss it...

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

Seán Fleming: It is €2 billion.

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

Seán Fleming: We will. When we get back that correspondence, we will discuss it.

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

Seán Fleming: We can assemble the information first and then see what policy issues are involved. It sounds as if there is quite a bit in this. There is funding through the partnership companies and some of them are under the control of local authorities now-----

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

Seán Fleming: -----and the enterprise offices are there. Will they all come into the Comptroller and Auditor General's figures?

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

Seán Fleming: Do they go through the local authorities?

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

Seán Fleming: Will that come in then?

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

Seán Fleming: They are part of the local government system. The Local Government Management Agency has a big say in much of the administration of many of these issues.

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

Seán Fleming: I will call the Deputy in one minute.

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

Seán Fleming: Deputy Aylward wishes to ask a question.

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

Seán Fleming: No. What we are looking at here is the funding from all central funds to the local authority. How it spends it is a matter for the Local Government Audit Service and not for us. However, money is going to local authorities from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, the Department of Rural and Community Development, local...

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

Seán Fleming: No. It is only looking at spending by Departments into the local authorities, but not how local authorities spend.

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

Seán Fleming: Who are they?

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

Seán Fleming: We can consider it. We will write straight away to get the membership of it. I am sure it is on the website. We will have it for next week. Once the money goes into the estimates process in the local authority, we cannot delve into what local councillors do after that.

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

Seán Fleming: They are on the list and the schedule. There being no other business for public session the public part of our meeting has concluded, and we will meet again in public next Thursday, 25 January, when we will meet the Valuation Office to deal with Chapter 11 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2016 report on the national property revaluation programme. We will also look at related Vote 16.

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

Seán Fleming: The Galway people coming in?