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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Deputy McDonald is next.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: In private session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I understand the legal advice is that we are not to stray into areas being covered by the commission.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I want to make it very clear that we are bringing in Mr. Tony O'Brien to deal with the issue as well. It would be very unbalanced of us to hear from the agency but not the person who raised the original issues, once the meeting is in private session. I want to make the following very clear. There are procurement issues and various issues of a financial nature that are not specific in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: The requestor has asked for the meeting to be in private.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Deloitte report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Not only that. What surprised me, and I think it will surprise a lot of people-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: -----and we have dealt with the Grace case at length here but we all turned on the radio, a fortnight ago, only to hear that the matter had been dealt with in the High Court and a settlement had been issued.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: There was a figure for costs that the agency had incurred but had not been paid by the HSE, which was being examined by Deloitte but it still has not completed a report. The preliminary findings of that report were accepted by the HSE. Included in the award, I think, was €600,000 in respect of unpaid care services. That matter has been agreed. All along while we talked here the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: The report has still not been issued.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We think it was on a certain date but I shall ask for the debate to be displayed on the screen.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am not sure but we will come back to the matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: No. That is the essence of private session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We discuss the matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: No. The whistleblower legislation is quite new.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: So there are not many established cases. In terms of discussions in private session, I do not think matters were discussed in private session for the Angela Kerins case. Private debates are recorded but they are not transcribed.