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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Deer Culls (16 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 691. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is considerable concern over the alleged mismanagement of native red deer in Killarney National Park and their future conservation status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42364/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Deer Culls (16 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 692. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the management plan that is in place and the way in which many sika and red deer are to be culled in the coming months by her Department's staff in Killarney National Park; the qualified staff available as conservation rangers with specific responsibility for the management of the herd and thereby reducing the impact on the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Deer Culls (16 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 693. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is considerable concern regarding unnecessary vilification of wild deer which is not based on factual scientific data and that some wildlife crimes against wild deer have been committed and reported to An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Deer Culls (16 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 694. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to make adjustments to the open season for wild deer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42367/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Deer Culls (16 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 695. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the issue in relation to deer management and conservation here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42368/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Wards of Court (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the release of persons from being a ward of court; if mechanisms to facilitate the easing of this process in a reasonable timescale will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42997/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 213. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be provided with orthotics shoes already made for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42843/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been placed on a panel for the post of home help for CHO areas; the expected number to be recruited from this panel by county in 2019; the length of time this panel will remain in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42854/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ms Josephine Mooney, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. We will hold over the minutes until the next meeting and matters arising. The next item on the agenda is correspondence received since the last...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. We have agreed to publish it. We have not come to it but we will in a moment. It is in the correspondence list. I do not think that was the one list. We will deal with it in a moment. The next category is B - correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow-up to Committee of Public Accounts meetings and other items for publishing. A number of items were held...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over for discussion at the next meeting. We have noted it, we did have some discussion on it, but the question we must deal with next week is whether we give parliamentary privilege to publishing the full document. No. 1638 B from Mr. Martin Bourke, assistant secretary, Office of Public Works, comprising a property services agreement regarding accommodation for the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Oh God, no.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I think that was provided to the previous committee. We will dig it out and circulate it to the members and return to it at the next meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: There was one exception.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. There is no general policy but that they can specifically do things that they do not do generally.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is correct but what I want to do for now is to circulate the more detailed response that he gave to the previous committee. It is on the record, and we will circulate it to members during the week and return to it. If we are unhappy with his response, we will take it from there. Let us just read the detailed response that he gave to the previous committee. Some of it might...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We agreed that we will publish that letter from the Department of Education and Skills. The next item is No. 1642B from Mr. Derek Finnegan of the parliamentary affairs division in the Department of Health, providing an update requested by the committee regarding the value for money review of public nursing homes. The letter is essentially saying that it will be next year before the review...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is why I specifically raised this the last day.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We would be bringing them in again. I ask members to bear with me because we touched on this the last day-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I want to read the highlights of this into the public record so that the public will know what we are talking about. There were three cases listed in a document that we got the last time with the Tax Appeals Commission with amounts totalling €361 million that were in dispute and we asked for a note on each of the three cases. The first case has an amount of €138 million under...