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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: No, I asked about oral hearings.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: How is the decision made as to whether to hold an oral hearing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: A decision on an oral hearing is not decided at the beginning of the process but, rather, well into it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have covered significant ground in the past couple of hours. I thank our guests from An Bord Pleanála and the Department for attending. My criticism in respect of the delay is directed at the higher levels of management in the Department rather than at Mr. Sheridan. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his support staff. It is agreed that the clerk to the committee...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (8 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when Ireland will sign an international treaty on business and human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40675/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (8 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason some third level education courses that are eligible for tax relief have a €1,500 disregard in respect of amounts spent on fees which is not eligible for tax relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40676/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the pre-tender stage of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40674/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (8 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the appropriate person to contact in his Department regarding a document (details supplied) in respect of a family that has children with special needs in different schools and have difficulty in taking their children to and from school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41005/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Status Applications (8 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will make contact with a person in respect of the recommendation from his Department that the person (details supplied) will be given a refugee declaration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40643/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Status Applications (8 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will make contact with a person in respect of the recommendation from his Department that the person (details supplied) will be given a refugee declaration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40644/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Transport Support Scheme (8 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 230. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a replacement for the transport grant for disabled drivers which was abolished five years ago; if so, the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40696/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (8 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 231. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be ensured for dementia services provided by county in the health spending Estimates for 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40699/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 294. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be admitted to hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41001/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 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 Mr. John Crean, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Catherine Connolly. Are the minutes of 26 September and 3 October agreed? Agreed. One matter arises from those minutes and I will deal with it as part of the work...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Committee of Public Accounts has performed a useful service here today by putting this information into the public arena. We are all hearing that the banks are having to raise funds at a negative interest rate or at 1% or 2%, and with the gross national debt in the region of €200 billion some people might think it is only costing €2 billion or €3 billion to pay it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is not information that is normally published but it gives a fuller and more accurate picture of the interest charged on the national debt and this committee will put that information out there today, having received it from the NTMA following specific queries from the committee. It is good to put that out there. It will take quite a while for some of that older debt to work its way...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is an issue we come back to every year. Perhaps some people find it the boring part of our business, but when there is €5 billion going out of the Exchequer every year it is still a big chunk of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. We will note and publish that useful information. No. 2417 from Mr. Brendan Gleeson, Secretary General, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, provides information requested by the committee regarding the oversight arrangements for funding to Horse Sport Ireland. We has asked for this information but through some minor administrative hiccup the correspondence has only...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine give the funding to Horse Sport Ireland and to Bord na gCon.