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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Who was the Chairman on that occasion?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: That meeting will concern the appropriation accounts for Vote 4, Central Statistics Office, and Vote 8, Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. The committee has also agreed to the request from Professor Chris Fitzpatrick, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital and former Master of the Coombe Hospital from 2006 to 2012, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Birth Data (9 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the number of births in each hospital in each of the years 2014 to 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16184/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (9 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding for a society (details supplied) for 2018 and 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16191/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (9 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 446. To ask the Minister for Health the process in place for persons with Down's syndrome in receipt of a medical card; if these can be issued for a minimum of a three year basis instead of asking a person with Down syndrome to fill out an online review often on an annual basis; if the practice which occurs on some occasions in which the person with Down syndrome is asked over the phone if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (9 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 447. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards and general practitioner visit cards, respectively, that were renewed in 2018; the number of these in which an online review form was requested; if a procedure will be put in place in circumstances in which there is a permanent life medical issue that medical cards can be issued on a much longer term basis which in turn will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been contacted and the number yet to be contacted in respect of the proposal to allow pensioners affected by the 2012 changes in rate bands to have their pension entitlement calculated on their total contributions basis; when all persons will be contacted; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Council Funding (9 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 658. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available for community grants from the Heritage Council in 2017, 2018 and 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16200/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (10 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for the opportunity to raise the important issue of the replacement of bus services that are urgently required in County Laois. I am speaking on behalf of the people of Mountrath, Castletown, Pike of Rushall and Borris-in-Ossory, who rely each day on the JJ Kavanagh & Sons bus service. People received shocking news last week when they were told that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (10 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for his reply, which is substantially along the lines I indicated arising from my direct contact with the NTA since last Friday. I asked it to arrange a briefing session in Leinster House for tomorrow morning, which it agreed to do. I have notified the Deputies in all of the counties affected by the decision to be present. We hope it will be constructive and have a good...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 122. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16834/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. He is joined by Ms Niamh Donegan, senior auditor. Apologies have been received from Deputies Pat Deering and David Cullinane. Are the minutes of 4 April 2019 agreed? Agreed. There are no matters arising. We shall proceed to correspondence. There are three...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is good. I saw an article in one of the Sunday newspapers about the 2018 financial statements. We will consider all those matters when they come before us in due course. The statements would not be audited by this stage. The next item is No.2083B, from Ms Jennifer Wiley, HEO, seafood policy and management division, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, providing an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely. We will be looking at capital projects and if it falls easily under that heading when we come to discuss capital projects, then we will do that. We will also write back on this. Perhaps we were not specific enough. We asked for details on the comprehensive appraisal with regard to budgeted projects. In our letter we also asked for details on how the costs estimations could...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: The cases were, effectively, withdrawn.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will write to the Revenue Commissioners. Obviously they will not identify any particular case but if large cases that were before the Tax Appeals Commission have since been closed then it saves work for the Tax Appeals Commission if it does not have to deal with them. That in its own right is good. In light of that we will ask the commission to give us an estimate of the value of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask for clarification of that. Our concern here is that PwC was, on a prima faciecase, apparently involved in the decision-making process and was then the body called in to examine the cost escalation arising in part from that decision-making process. I do not understand it and the public does not understand it. We need immediate clarification of that matter today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: It also affects the credibility of the people who commissioned PwC to do the report if the same people were aware that it was involved in the earlier decision. I use the word "if". It is not just PwC, it is the entire management of this project in the HSE.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am asking someone in the secretariat to contact the HSE via our usual point of contact to say we want a reply emailed to the committee by lunchtime and before the conclusion of our business today. I want that message to go to the HSE point of contact on the role of PwC and clarification of the matters I have just raised. Why was PwC commissioned to carry out the cost review process? I am...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: They mention Alan Moore, director of strategic capital development at Western Trust in Northern Ireland, who met members of the paediatric hospital board.