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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will hold this financial statement over for the next meeting and come back to it then. The next item is the accounts of Dublin City University, for which there is a clear audit opinion. The financial statements of Dublin City University educational trust group have not, however, been consolidated with those of the university group. Here we go again. The trust had accumulated reserves...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next item is the credit union fund, for which there is a clear audit opinion. We then have Pobal, for which there is clear audit opinion, and the Health Products Regulatory Authority, for which there is also a clear audit opinion. We will note these with the exception of An Chéim, which we will come back to at our next meeting. The next item is our work programme. Today we are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We could finish at 12.30 p.m. No?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: It will be 3 p.m. or so when we come back in the afternoon. We have agreed to take a few hours in the afternoon to sign off on matters. I think we should agree at this stage to complete the Garda Síochána and Courts Vote before the voting bloc. If we start bit late when we come back in the afternoon after 3 p.m., we will take the required hours to finish out our business. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is it a financial or a medical audit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, they do not, because they did not publish the internal audit on Console.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the HSE for a copy of the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will find that out from the HSE and ask for whatever document is available. Returning to our work programme, we will complete our consideration of the report into the Garda Training College in Templemore later this afternoon and this evening with a view to launching it next Tuesday. I propose that we do so at 2 p.m., earlier in afternoon than 4 p.m. the last day, in the audiovisual room....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: In due course.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Go raibh maith agat.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. If any members have issues that would like to include on the work programme for discussion upon our return, they need to submit them to the secretariat. The Comptroller and Auditor General will have his report towards the end of September. Moving on, there are two outstanding reports that we have not yet looked at but will deal with again. One concerns the payment of motor tax-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: The administration of the collection of motor tax. The second report, which we have partly covered as part of the education report, concerns financial reporting in the public service. This will not take too much more time. We need to clear these as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have to be selective.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: I think we can all agree on that. We are having two or three extensive meetings a week and our commitment is really at the limit at what might be considered reasonable for a member of the Committee for Public Accounts. We will be more targeted in what do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have that in the work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is on the list. We have enough to keep us going.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: On the work programme, I wish to deal with one item of correspondence that arrived this morning, 13 July, from An Garda Síochána. It was not listed on the correspondence because it was received only this morning. The letter is from Mr. Joseph Nugent. I will read it out because it has not been published. It states:I know from coverage in the media in recent days and from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Exactly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat. I am sure there is a standard Oireachtas protocol on this. I will ask that the standard protocol be circulated to members and we can include it in our press statement so that people will be aware. There is an agreed protocol in the Houses of the Oireachtas.