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

Seán Fleming: I will call the Comptroller and Auditor General after Deputy Farrell has spoken.

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

Seán Fleming: Yes.

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

Seán Fleming: The secretariat will circulate all of that to us in advance of next week. We will try to sign off on all of that, including the work programme and the suggested dates. I will help in that process. I invite the Comptroller and Auditor General to make some concluding remarks.

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

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General was asked about the signature and whether he had a role in it.

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

Seán Fleming: When did you find that out?

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

Seán Fleming: Did Mr. McCarthy say the statement of accounting policies and principles for 2016 has already been presented and requires amendment? Is it correct that what he was given on 31 March for last year is not adequate and he will be looking for changes to it?

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

Seán Fleming: She signed the document on 31 March. Is it correct that, at the end of August or early September, a paragraph was added to the document dated 31 March?

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

Seán Fleming: The document signed on 31 March had a paragraph added to it in September but it is still dated 31 March.

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

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General requested it.

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

Seán Fleming: What I said was very clear. I said the document in front of us, signed on 31 March 2016 by Nóirín O'Sullivan and which included the paragraph in question, did not include the reference to the auditor. That was added subsequently by the Comptroller and Auditor General. He recommended that it was a function of the Accounting Officer to add this. The paragraph was added in...

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

Seán Fleming: We will ask the Accounting Officer that.

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

Seán Fleming: That is a point of view. We will ask the Accounting Officer to explain why that date is on it.

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

Seán Fleming: The date is 31 March but that paragraph was not signed off on 31 March.

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

Seán Fleming: Next week we will have a detailed work programme and a plan of where we are going. We will have asked for everything to be submitted. If members have additional information they should get it to the secretariat straight away. We will have a list of both the suggested meetings and will move on promptly.

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

Seán Fleming: Yes. I am holding the accounting statements over. The only item we have is Bord na gCon. We only have two financial statements to be noted next week. Next today, we will try to take the opening statements and suspend.

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

Seán Fleming: 2 p.m.

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

Seán Fleming: Next week. We will suspend while the witnesses take their seats. They will make opening statements and we will suspend again to return at 2 p.m.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are dealing with the 2015 Appropriation Accounts for the Department of Justice and Equality, Vote 24 and Chapter 6 of the Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. From the Department of Justice and Equality, we are joined by Mr. Noel Waters, Secretary General, Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Mr. Jimmy Martin, Mr. John O'Callaghan, Mr. Seamus Clifford, Mr. Ben Ryan, Mr. Eugene Banks and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Waters for the opening statement. As I indicated, there is a joint sitting of the Oireachtas in the next few minutes, so the meeting is now suspended and we will resume at 2 o'clock.

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

Seán Fleming: We are now scheduled to deal with a vote for the Department of Justice and Equality and chapter 6 in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. Before we take that, the Comptroller and Auditor General has asked me to say that he wants to make a statement arising out of this morning's meeting.