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Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Dr. Brady can come back to us after lunch.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: IGB expects to receive €13 million-----

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is all subject to everything going ahead.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: The expectation at this point is that IGB will receive €13 million this year, which will go to the bank, and €10 million as soon as possible, which will probably come out of next year's departmental Estimate.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Fine. I just wanted to clarify that. Questions about attendance were asked. I will ask my last question, the answer to which the witnesses must know from their own knowledge. It was said the average attendance in 2014 was 371 per meet and 387 in 2015. This year, to date, what is the average attendance at the meets being held? It was said 30,000 a year are being lost in Dublin....

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: How many is that?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Approximately how many meets have been held this year?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: The question is very simple. Mr. Meaney said that when one decides, one divides. Obviously, some people are most unhappy with the situation. I have no idea of the numbers. I am just being logical in my question. Obviously, if there are people going to the other 15 venues for meetings, they are still continuing to go to their meets. What I want to establish is the attendance at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: -----over the break. They should be able to give us an indication of what is happening aside from the controversy here in Dublin because a lot goes on in the country. That is all. Those thoughts just occurred to me during the course of this morning's meeting. I call Deputy Cullinane.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy should not weaken the board's hand in negotiations.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have to accept that now. We cannot compromise commercial sensitivity.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Allow Dr. Brady to respond.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Bank account.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: On that, when the transaction is completed is one issue. If this preferred bidder does not complete the transaction, it is back on the market again and IGB has to disclose that information; it could compromise the situation. While Deputy MacSharry also wishes to come in, I note the voting time is coming up.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I ask Deputy Cullinane to be as quick as possible.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: If Mr. Murnane checks the financial statement, it will tell him..

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: This is a question that should be directed to the Department of Education and Skills.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will write immediately to the Department of Education and Skills because it only that Department that can answer that question. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has no role in that area.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: They are not here.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: May I clarify for the record, there are two different legal processes in terms of planning and the Deputy has merged them into the one sentence. People may think they are the same process: rezoning is a function of a development plan process, material contravention of a development plan is a different issue. What can happen is that if the zoning on the site is not appropriate to the...