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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: That was a formal investigation into a matter approved by the Dáil. We are not in compellability mode. We are like any other committee seeking goodwill from people to co-operate. To go down the compellability road, the committee would have to get the approval of the House and the CPP and specify the reasons it was necessary. That is a mammoth task and not feasible for a weekly agenda.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: No. Quite a lot of the correspondence is not published from all the State bodies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: The secretariat is taking it on board and seeing if it can come up with some formula or other. It is asking for time to be allowed to come back on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Which document?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We got that subsequently.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the secretariat to see if a formula can be developed to improve the situation. The next tranche of correspondence is category C. Items C1 to C4, inclusive, are from an individual and relate to new evidence in an ongoing dispute between North Meath Communities Development Association and the HSE. We wrote in March to this body to convey the decision of the committee that it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We received a response from the Minister for Health which has been sent on to the people who wrote to us directly on the matter. Did we write to the Taoiseach's office?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will follow up that item of correspondence, repeat it or send a copy. We will get a response and send that out. However, the new evidence referred to relates to 2001 and is not new evidence at all. It is not even the last decade. We will follow up the matter with the Taoiseach's office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps that is the route. It may be the Minister they should be talking to and not the PAC. We will conclude. We will send out the reply from the Minister and get the reply from the Taoiseach's office. We will communicate it to them when we have done that. It will arise in correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is a good suggestion. We will ask the secretariat to work on having a standard document in place so that when we get documentation that we are all satisfied is not within our remit, we can say that, according to that document, this is the procedure. We spend a lot of time on business that is not within our remit on some occasions. People can have genuine grievances regarding how they...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it was. Prior to the last election, letters were issued by the then Committee of Public Accounts-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, the last committee got into it in more detail than we feel we should. There have been arbitrators' reports all over the place on this. We are not here to re-arbitrate on arbitrators' reports. That is not our function. As the Deputy has said, lots of correspondents have given us copies of arbitrators' reports over the years but that is not our function. We will get the correspondence...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, we are noting it and we are certainly not publishing it. It is confidential medical information on the individual.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. I think at this stage-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We got the information for a good reason. She sent it to us, at considerable difficulty to herself. We must respect, appreciate and empathise-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Correct, and we will make sure that she sends it on to Dr. Richard Thorn. Is that agreed? We are not publishing that particular item of correspondence. Items Nos. 504C (i) and (ii) and No. 513 (i) to (iii) are duplicate items of correspondence from an individual attaching correspondence and communications with different members of An Garda Síochána on bonus provision. We will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: If they remain unpaid-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat to draft that letter, which is not as straightforward as it might seem. We will get that point communicated to the Minister so that he will know our position in advance of the conclusion of the liquidation process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, but the response will not be immediate.