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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: If it can be done on Thursday afternoon, so be it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will try to make Thursday afternoon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will do it as soon as possible.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is simply that I cannot confirm it today. That is all I am saying. The next item of correspondence is No. 787B. That is noted and has been discussed. The next item of correspondence is No. 791, correspondence from Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, advising that the Minister for Education and Skills has appointed an investigator to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: How many ETBs do we bring in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will pencil in a date.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I think it may be for all of those who have not submitted their 2015 audit, if possible. There is one criterion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will contact ETBI to try to set a date as quickly as possible. Then we will discuss which particular ETBs we are going to bring in on that date.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next items of correspondence are No. 797B from the Comptroller and Auditor General and No. 800B from the Department of Defence. The item was raised here the previous day. A technical issue arose due to the audit. We will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to give us a short report. It is a technical issue and we do not need a major discussion. However, there is a formal process...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: In other words, when we had an appropriation vote before Christmas, the matter was not captured at that stage. It came to light during the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit after the year end. A payment of €23,299 was recorded in a suspense account. It should have cleared out of the suspense account before the year end. It cannot go into 2017 because it relates to 2016 and we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is an accounting error. The Department recorded the payment in a suspense account rather than in the pensions account. It should have gone through the suspense account before the year end and cleared it out and put it into the proper account.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I propose that we note both of these items of correspondence for the record. We have a draft of the report on the appropriations account for 2016, Vote 35, which the Committee of Public Accounts will lay before the Dáil. The Dáil will then deal with it. We will issue this short report to the Dáil to the effect that it sees no objection to the excess sum being sanctioned by...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Garda matter will take a couple of minutes to deal with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: There are other items also.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I understand that. There are a couple of points I want to make. First, everything is clear-cut. Did members study the note of the justice committee last Wednesday?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: In fairness, the author of the report, assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Driscoll, gave a very comprehensive report at the justice committee meeting. Every question we have asked here was put to him and he answered all of them in terms of resources, who he consulted - Mr. Pat Leahy, local management and the assistant Commissioner - and the people he chose to consult. He deals with quite a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the secretariat to arrange it as soon as possible.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next item of correspondence is No. 793, dated 5 October. It is an acknowledgment from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. We asked it for an update on the project and the costs involved. It stated it would send on the details to us. We expect to see them very soon. Item No. 794C has been dealt with already in dealing with the HIQA issue. Item No. 795C, dated 9...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask that the individual be properly supported. The committee did agree a little while ago that we would finish with correspondence at 10 a.m. There might be two, three or four items to which we can come back.