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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy want us to hold it over?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will not clear it. We will hold that item over until next week. We will not note it until people have had an opportunity to read it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss the correspondence next week and come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will hold it over. We are not moving on from it. It will be on our correspondence list next week. The next item is No. 967 from Mr. Martin Shanahan, CEO of IDA Ireland, on contracts between IDA Ireland and ConnectIreland. The correspondence provides clarification on the verification process used by IDA Ireland in respect of payments to ConnectIreland.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: I suggest that the Deputy might assist the secretariat in drafting the specific letter to IDA Ireland and we will go back. I believe there is a misunderstanding all around. We use the process that was used for ConnectIreland. We did not want a direct comparison. It alerted us to the issue of how they do it themselves in regard to their own job announcements. That is what the committee...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Essentially it seems to be a survey. It is not a 100% questionnaire, it is only a survey.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes it is. It is only a survey. If the Deputy wants to talk to the secretariat about that we will issue a more specific letter. This is noted and published. Correspondence item No. 958 is from Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Charles Flanagan, dated 24 November 2017 in regard to an individual who has made a protected disclosure regarding the Irish Prison Service. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Have I missed something? Which draft report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: The HSE was to reply. We received the Deloitte report and we are waiting on the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have not got it but we have been assured the committee will have it for next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. Make sure the secretariat has it as an item on our correspondence list for next week. I thought we were to have it for this week. We received the Deloitte one and we have been back to the HSE. We were expecting it but it is not here just yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. We will certainly deal with that next week. The Deputies are right. While we deal with correspondence, sometimes the items of correspondence the committee has not received can be more important that the correspondence we have received. The next item is financial statements and accounts received since the Thursday meeting. These are financial statements from the Financial Services...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Who is the custodian?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is an account separate from central funds and it is held in suspension?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Would Mr. Harkness know the balance in the fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Most of the money that comes in gets washed out and through in due course? Okay. Those accounts have been published and laid before the Oireachtas. If any member has a particular interest they are free to examine them. The accounts have a clear audited opinion. It is interesting as I had not heard any details on that account before. Every day is a learning day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit the accounts of the Irish Aviation Authority?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Do they have a private auditor?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. We will come back to that issue. It is a bit like the RTÉ situation where some organisations-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: I submitted a parliamentary question to every Department under the aegis of the relevant Ministers in respect of funding provided to two organisations of over €1 million, and whether or not they are audited, and the proportion of those funds to their overall funding. have received replies but I have not gone through them all yet. I believe that the Committee of Public Accounts will...