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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: We need to send a copy of our short discussion to the Department of Health, the Secretary General and the HSE to ask them to reconsider the issue in the light of this discussion, acknowledging that they might not be legally responsible but asking them to think outside the box to deal with it. While on the matter of the HSE, Deputy Catherine Connolly flagged the matter of Mr. Tony O'Brien's...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Deloitte report, as he called it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: I want to be precise when he next comes before the committee. I am not going to go back over the Grace matter. The commission of investigation is up and running.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will be sending the reply we will receive at the next meeting to the commission of investigation. We are not opening up the general Grace issue. It has been dealt with.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: I think the secretariat know precisely what we are looking for which we will communicate. If somebody has another specific issue that needs to be clarified about the evidence, I ask him or her to contact the secretariat, as a letter will go out early next week on the issue. We have dealt with No. 431C(i) and (ii) on the Console issue. No. 424C is also about Console and the Department of...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are now resuming in public session. We are here to examine the Comptroller and Auditor General's Special Report No. 96 in respect of the cost of child abuse inquiry and redress. In the session following this one, we will be examining the financial statements of Caranua, which is an independent State body set up to help people who experience abuse in residential institutions in Ireland...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy. We received a letter from Mr. Ó Foghlú on 10 April 2017. In respect of that correspondence which we considered just a few moments ago before we invited him in, we were discussing Waterford Institute of Technology and FeedHenry, a matter he deals with in his letter. All I ask him, because he is here in person, is to liaise with the HEA and perhaps the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Ó Foghlú may proceed with his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: Before I call Deputy Connolly, I wish to clarify a point with the Secretary General. He stated that Caranua was established "to utilise up to €110 million in contributions offered in the aftermath of the publication of the Ryan report to help meet the needs of former residents". Is that an additional €110 million to the figures he previously mentioned or is it €110...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is not an additional €110 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is within the figures. The Department has not received €110 million in cash to date as a result of the additional voluntary contributions made after the Ryan report. The Secretary General stated that the voluntary contributions in place "stands at €193 million, of which ...€97 million ..." has been received or is outstanding and some of it is in property. How much...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: No, not cash post the Ryan report-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: -----but cash in the aftermath of the Ryan report.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: Money might have been received post the Ryan report.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: That has been received.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is exactly the figure I calculated. How can there be €110 million in that account?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: The witness is telling me at this point in time, and we will have Caranua in separately, that Caranua is working on a fund of €110 million. That is accepted. He is now saying that they have not even gotten the €110 million yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: No, I am talking about money received. We know about the commitments. Caranua has not actually received €110 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: The witness did not highlight that in his opening statement. He gave us figures, figures, figures. I have been adding and subtracting to try to work out percentages. The witness now says that I am right.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: Fine, but this is the parent body. We will come to Caranua. From the Department's point of view, Caranua is the organisation handling the €110 million. The onus was on the witness to get the €110 million for it. It has not got that yet.