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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will deal it as part of the report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will deal with that issue in our discussions on the Garda report. The issue of information not received is one with which the committee will have to deal. That information has not been provided is in itself a conclusion.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We can do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We can discuss what mechanism should be put in place. We could, for example, allow each questioner to ask one question or to engage in a particular line of questioning and then he or she would be followed by a sweeper who would raise issues that merit discussion in public but are often only dealt with briefly before the conclusion of a meeting. I have mixed views on this. When I am given...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We would be covering all the bases. We will return to this discussion. The remainder of this meeting will be held in private session. The next meeting will take place at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, 4 July 2017, when, in private session, we will discuss the education report and the report on the Garda College in Templemore.

Topical Issue Debate: Electricity Transmission Network (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: I publicly invite the Minister to visit the site. The Minister, Deputy Flanagan, may have already invited him personally. The most upsetting point is that EirGrid has made a massive mistake. It knows this mistake cannot be rectified. A construction management plan cannot be submitted in an area covered by an appropriate assessment after work has commenced. It has been dishonest in its...

Topical Issue Debate: Electricity Transmission Network (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: He will inform us all.

Topical Issue Debate: Electricity Transmission Network (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: I spoke briefly to the Minister last Thursday about the unauthorised development by EirGrid of an electricity substation and electricity lines at Coolnabacca, County Laois. It is not just a question of a breach of planning laws. This is a situation where the actions of EirGrid have been contemptuous. It has broken the law, disregarded the local community and been dishonest in its public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: 349. To ask the Minister for Health when a procedure will be carried out on a person (details supplied) in Beaumont Hospital. [29624/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: 368. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29708/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Appeals (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: 440. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an appeal will be held for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29724/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by the deputy director of audit, Mr. Shane Carton. The minutes of the meetings of 14 June and 15 June 2017 have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed. With regard to matters arising, we will come to everything relevant in the course of the meeting...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely. We will come back to it next week. We have done No. 603B regarding Caranua. No. 607B, (i) to (iv), is correspondence from the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Committee’s examination of the Garda Síochána Templemore issue, including a briefing note on the accounting officer's obligations, which is dated 7 July 2015, from Michael Culhane. It has been...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is a copy of correspondence dated 12 June 2017 from the executive director, human resources and people development, Mr. John Barrett.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will call it up. We will write to the Commissioner for a response specifically to that letter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will ask for that for next Wednesday.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will make one remark about the letter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is not just his view. We will just go down through it. I want to draw attention to the second paragraph, in fairness to Mr. Barrett. I am reading the paragraph that starts, "In the course of the meeting I referred extensively". The last sentence is, "On 30th June, 2015 and again in early July I had been advised that Mr. Cyril Dunne had brought these matters of critical concern, which I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will write to both and ask for a written reply by next Wednesday. It should be a straightforward point.