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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and he attended the last day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Madigan has resigned from this committee and joined another and the Oireachtas appointed Deputy Deering who was here last week. He was here at the private session yesterday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy should do that through the secretariat.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy can just talk to them. We always want to ensure that two people are lined up in advance and they are ready in time honoured tradition rather than ringing somebody else up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The only issue we have is that the Policing Authority has a meeting in the afternoon of that day and the witnesses have to be out of here at 1 p.m. If we have to we can skip dealing with correspondence and start early.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: If there are any updated internal audit reports we have not seen over the summer we want to get those too.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: On the work programme, one final issue I want to raise, we have scheduled for the Revenue Commissioners to appear at the meeting on 30 November to deal with a report the Comptroller and Auditor General has written on corporation tax receipts. Many people think the role of this committee is to simply monitor expenditure. That is part of its role, and perhaps it takes up most of our time, but...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Finance is on the list. We will write to it next week seeking this information in advance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I want to draw the line here between this committee and the role of the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, which deals with the Finance Bill and future proposals. We are taking the legislation as it stands at the moment and how it operates. We are interested in how the legislation of previous years was assessed, the impact of it and what happened as a result of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We need to examine the process that is happening today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a budget available for consultancy for committees. We might possibly need a senior taxation consultant from some establishment who is very au faitwith this and can inform and educate this committee on how we need to deal with those we are meeting. The level of taxation expertise required does not exist anywhere in the Oireachtas. It is not its function. We will have to use the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We need help.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We need professional advice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Will we move on to today's business?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Social protection is on 7 December, and on 14 December we are dealing with bank stabilisation. That is in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. I think at this stage-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: They are not off the hook yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. He is joined by Mr. Matt Collins, assistant secretary, and Ms Finola Rossi and Ms Rebecca Minch, principal officers. They are also joined by Ms Mary Austin from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to turn...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy noted that the environment fund is a separate fund of €35 million and is not before us today. The environment issue is part and parcel of what we are examining and I consider this a gap in today's proceedings. Will Mr. Griffin tell us the position on the plastic bag levy?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We will be here for a while yet. Would it be possible for someone to contact the office and have the most recent accounts on the environment levy emailed to the committee in order that we can take the environment fund into our considerations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: That would not be adequate.