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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: This is not about local authorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: There are several amendments to that Bill. Will we agree to write directly to Irish Water and ask it for a note on its procurement process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is very simple. We just do not know the answer off the top of our heads. It can be established very quickly. I will send a note to members tomorrow on which Department is the line Department. I am a little confused because the regulator over Irish Water is under one Department but the funding comes from the other Department. Two Departments actually have responsibility. There is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is a bit like CIE. It gets a public subvention. It receives funds from a line Department and the Vote of that Department comes under our remit. As with CIE, Irish Water gets a subvention from-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is reportable to the line committee but, because of the public funding aspect, I believe we have a direct line there as well. The motor tax receipts go through the local government fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: And the Comptroller and Auditor General audits those.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Our committee considers that funding. That aspect of its funding comes under the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts. That is why we can write to Irish Water directly. We will confirm which Department covers the communications regulator. It would be useful for us to have a briefing note. Somebody in the Oireachtas might get it out to us. The next item is 610C, correspondence...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: I reiterate Deputy Connolly's point. The Committee of Public Accounts meets for a minimum of almost a full day every week. Some committees meet weekly and some meet once a fortnight. Since last summer, we have been meeting practically twice a week. Therefore, the workload of the Committee of Public Accounts is extraordinarily extensive. The staff allocated to us are stretched beyond all...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is agreed. We will try to have the meeting next Wednesday, possibly. The next item of correspondence is from Deputy MacSharry asking whether we can request any and all communications between the Department of Justice and Equality and the director of finance and-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC, in respect of any attempt to secure charitable status for the Garda College. Does the Deputy want to comment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Could the Deputy explain the role of PwC?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: To help us, what is the reference to PricewaterhouseCoopers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to both sides, namely, the Department of Justice and Equality directly and An Garda Síochána.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: And the request is the information is to be here by next Wednesday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is the request to An Garda Síochána. We need to communicate that we want all the information on everything requested during and arising from the four public meetings to date back here by next Wednesday. We will be discussing our draft report on Thursday and we want to have the full complement of documentation. We may have further points of clarification at that stage, but we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to that correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Definitely after the summer recess we can put the OPW on our work programme for an early visit because there are very extensive issues that would be of interest to the committee under our remit. We will note it for early in the work programme for the next season, if we are all still here. Next on the agenda are statements of accounts received since the previous meeting and the list is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is the residential redress special account. Moneys from the special account are used to pay awards made by the residential institutional redress board and associated legal and application costs. For the year ended 2015 the account had a throughput of €10 million and there is a clear audit opinion. We note it. If any member wants to follow up on the account directly he or she is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Very good. There being no business other than our public session, we will suspend for a moment while the witnesses take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are now back in public session. In the context of our examination of financial statements in the education sector, this meeting is a follow-up meeting relating to certain matters. The meeting will be divided into two sessions. Session A will deal with matters relating to the University of Limerick, UL, and University College Cork, UCC. Session B will deal with matters relating to the...