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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: If there is an issue, the Comptroller and Auditor General will come back on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is proper to the justice committee because it relates to the Garda Vote.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: If anyone wants to take it up with the justice committee please do, but we have discussed it and noted it. The next item of correspondence is No. 727, dated 28 July, from an individual with copies of communication between himself and the Office of the Minister for Education and Skills regarding teachers' pay and pension coming from the public purse while their contracts of employment are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is very interesting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I suggest we write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We are continually told teachers are employed by the boards of management, ergo they are not State employees and if there is a problem in a school the board of management must sort it out, but they get State pensions. There are similar issues with people on FÁS schemes and other things, who are fully funded by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. It is No. 727C.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will present the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with this report and we want a comprehensive response, not a one-pager. It should deal with all publicly funded bodies such as the section 38 and 39 bodies. There will be food for thought in it when it comes. The next item is No. 728C, dated 28 July, from an individual regarding contractual arrangements made by Laois County...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will take it home and follow it up. The next item is No. 729C, dated 27 July, from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, advising that John McKeon has been appointed Accounting Officer for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, replacing Ms Niamh O'Donoghue. We note that. The next item is No. 730, 1-3, dated 1 August from myself, attaching previous...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We took 731C a minute ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We moved it from C to B and dealt with it. It is correspondence, dated 2 August, from the chief executive officer of the Irish Greyhound Board enclosing information requested by the committee on the strategic plan and the television contract. We note and will publish that and people will be free to read it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Take it up. The next item is about protected disclosures in the Prison Service and I propose we send a copy to the individual who raised the matter with us. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item is No. 735 from myself, enclosing correspondence relating to the national paediatric hospital development board. The matter raised will be of real concern to many members and we should write...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: That was my mistake. It is Cashel, County Tipperary. However, we will forward the letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I would be disappointed if Deputy Kelly was not more up to speed than the correspondent. The Deputy is on top of the job, which is good. No. 745 is correspondence from an individual raising questions about payments from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the European fund for his herd of cattle. The secretariat has reviewed the letter the Department sent to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: No. 746C is correspondence dated 24 August requesting that the committee review the events surrounding the shooting incident and attempted escape by a prisoner on 18 May 1988 in Portlaoise Prison, when a prison officer was shot at by the Irish Army. Does anyone wish to comment on this before I make my suggestion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will definitely write to the Minister for Justice and Equality. Will we write to the justice committee or are we going in two different directions?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will forward the correspondence to both and ask for detailed responses on how the matter was ultimately concluded. As has been stated, the individual concerned was ultimately dismissed from the Prison Service and it may not be unconnected to his act of bravery on that day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask them to examine the matter and to notify us of progress. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item is No. 747, correspondence from an individual stating that members of the committee act outside their remit when questioning witnesses who appear before it. Members have seen the letter. We will note it. Next is No. 750, correspondence dated 8 September on behalf of Deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy said the IBRC. He means the liquidator of the IBRC.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: So he publishes a report.