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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps it is included in this allowance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is not a matter to which we will come back in the next couple of weeks. On the allowance which was mentioned earlier and which is referred to under emoluments and allowances as part of the Central Fund payment, the Áras an Uachtaráin website states that there is - from the Central Fund - a payment in respect of hospitality for 20,000 visitors. Perhaps there is a relationship,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: As I said, the Áras an Uachtaráin website states that €800,000 of that figure is for its staff in Áras an Uachtaráin. Some of this might relate to that entertainment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. The website gives the impression that there are payments in respect of hospitality for the 20,000 visitors to Áras an Uachtaráin and that these are paid for from the Central Fund. It is linking it to that. Even though it is not audited, it appears to link it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Áras puts it on its website. We will take it as accurate if it puts it up on its website. I call Deputy Kelly, who has not yet had an opportunity to contribute. Members who want to speak in the second round should indicate in the following sequence: Deputy Connolly; Deputy Aylward; and Deputy MacSharry.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputies Connolly, Aylward and MacSharry for a quick second round.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: Who is appointed Accounting Officer is a decision of the Government. Years ago, it used to be the Secretary General of the Department of Finance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: A few years ago the Government, as it is entitled to do, changed it from the Secretary General of the Department of Finance to the Secretary General of-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: We might take it up with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: Before I call Mr. McCarthy, Deputy O'Connell has a brief point. We are wrapping up now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy has indicated. This will be the final comment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Oireachtas does.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: For the record, as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts I have been selected-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: -----for an audit for the second time in two consecutive years. There is some random process in here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: We have gleaned some information. This meeting was a useful exercise. Perhaps it should have been done several times by previous Committees of Public Accounts. We have learned one lesson. The Vote is an issue we will not neglect in future years. It is an issue to which we will return. We are not asking Mr. Fraser to send any information to us at this point Any question that was not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: 177. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be carried out for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38979/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy as the permanent witness to the committee. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. The minutes of the meeting of 20 September have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed. There is a small change to be made to the minutes of the meeting of Tuesday, 25 September, which we will clear next week. There...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is one of the reasons that we want to talk to Dr. Graham Love. The Department should not accept that. Just because they know of an infringement does not make it correct. We will return to this topic. The expectation would be that steps would be taken by the relevant institute to rectify the position and ensure that a deficit position does not continue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: In other words, the accounts will include charges for depreciation on assets that will create a loss but depreciation is not a cash outflow. Therefore, even though the profit and loss account may show a loss due to charges like that, there could still be cash in the bank. Just because there is a trading loss does not mean that an entity will be in overdraft.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: Some of the unpaid creditors have not yet been paid. An organisation can be in deficit but still have cash in the bank. It is a subtle accounting difference but an important one. They will be the same in the long run but at any time a body can be in deficit but have cash in the bank.