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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Was the person a contract manager?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Right. The PPP contract manager had been-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: -----identified earlier.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: I urge the Deputy not to get personal about the individual.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay. I thank the Deputy. I want to bring this issue to a conclusion. I call Deputy Connolly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Deputy. I have listened to Deputy MacSharry. We have the letter from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, which will be published and put on the public record. I will make a few observations. First, I agree with the Deputies. I do not intend to meet the Secretary General to discuss the particular issue as I accept it is a broader issue for the committee. We must acknowledge...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: There was innuendo that the incompetence may have been due, in some way, to the contract manager. However, it might have been due to the contractor, who has to go and fix it. It was not established as to who was incompetent.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is up to me to stop-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: I take the point the Deputy makes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: He does say in his last line that he would like to request that I would make sure that at future meetings he is not placed in an unfair position again. He feels that it was unfair to the extent that I did stop the conversation. As Chairman, I will be more strict. I will require two things. I will want witnesses to answer questions but I will also want committee members to treat witnesses...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Did he?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: He said he was not at that-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay, fine. We will not reopen that matter now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Members will have to bear with me now because I need to read one page from a letter that came in to us because it is central to the issue at hand. We have discussed this PPP contract manager situation at length and I must put this on the public record in the interests of fairness. I am now going to read from a letter that was sent to this committee on 10 June 2014 and resent to us last...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Very briefly, please.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: We know that.