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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay. I think I have done enough. I wished to ask some more questions about the financial statements but we have had a long day. As witnesses will understand, we are trying to get information into the public arena in order that people will understand what is going on because there is some frustration with how long it has taken the €1.4 billion spent on housing last year to translate...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Christmas comes every year.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (6 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: 557. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can receive ophthalmology treatment in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44902/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (6 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: 748. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons dealt with in respect of hip operations under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45815/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (6 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: 759. To ask the Minister for Health the position on the proposal to change the working arrangements for pharmaceutical assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45926/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (6 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: 780. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an overdue farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45387/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme (6 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: 799. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the qualifying criteria for eligibility for the suckler farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45820/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 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 Georgina O'Mahoney, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. We are holding over the minutes to a further meeting and moving on to the next item, correspondence. There are three categories of correspondence....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps we could write to the HSE on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will ask the HSE to give us an update, including figures on the original number of staff, the number of staff who transferred and the number who did not transfer. We will at least ask the HSE to provide the current position on the numbers. That is the periodic report. We will follow up on a few matters. We are noting many matters and there are others on which we are seeking additional...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Much of the response refers to purchases of surplus emissions allowances from other European Union member states. Deputy Catherine Murphy is correct in reference to the years of overachieving. Using the word "overachieving" is making out that the recession, and the level of development we did not have at that time, were achievements. That is set out in the document. We will ask for an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will come back to that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss the acceptance of the specific recommendation regarding the Kildare and Wicklow ETB investigation. The committee also recommended that the outcome be established and agreed between the Department of Education and Skills and Education and Training Boards Ireland, ETBI. It was also recommended that all future public funding to ETBI be clearly aligned to clear and measurable...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will write back to the Department in respect of recommendation 21 and ask that it give us the number of medical assessors it had, how many have left, how many have been recruited and the net increase. It is fine to say a further three full-time equivalent medical assessors are expected to be recruited by the end of July. That may only be replacing three who have left. We need the full...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: They have given us the breakdown of suspected fraud versus error.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will write and ask for the breakdown. We will ask the Department to explain whether it will separate these items in all communications from now on.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will write back to them on that because they will be appearing before us in a routine manner shortly. We will write back to them on the basis sought by the Deputy and they can send that on to us in the meantime. It is an issue that comes up quite often.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Overpayments are due to a variety of factors, full stop, and it is not just fraud. We are agreed. We will write and ask for the position on that. The committee recommends closer co-operation between the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection on the issue of outstanding debt relating to redundancy in employers' insolvency schemes. It is no...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I sat through all the meetings on that issue. The mission of NAMA was to recover what it paid. The fact it is a surplus rather than a deficit is good. NAMA's projected surplus has been increasing over the years. That is not a Government target. It is just NAMA announcing what it expects. The legislation only expected it to break even.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: The surplus is increasing. It is clear it has not yet realised that surplus because there is still money and debt to be collected. However, based on how it is going and its knowledge of what is to be collected, it is projected it will have a surplus of at least €3.5 billion. This is very important. When we had the Department of Finance in here some months ago as part of this...