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Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector Funding (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) for a project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44003/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector Funding (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for an organisation (details supplied) to sustain its activities in the 2020 Estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44004/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the basic payment scheme and the area based schemes payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44000/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 278. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the need for a women’s refuge at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44001/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 279. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding will be provided for a children's worker (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44002/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details regarding eligibility for landlords to enter under the HAP scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44046/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee, and Ms Olivia Somers, senior auditor. No apologies have been received in respect of today's meeting. The minutes of 17 October have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed. If any matters arise, they can come up under correspondence. The next item on the agenda is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Okay. We will hold it over until the next meeting. I have no problem if the Deputy wants-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It will be in two weeks, on 7 November 2019. The House is not sitting-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are certain. We have been told it will be on that date.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will come to the document in question in our work programme. We will not meet next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I agree and have read it. It is worth 20 minutes of discussion.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over. The document will hold and does not have to be dealt with today. We will deal with it at the next opportunity. No. 2456 is correspondence from Professor Willie Donnelly, president of Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT, dated 11 October, providing details requested by the committee in respect of an accumulated revenue deficit of €6.3 million in August...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will reply to the correspondence and, as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, I will state I have viewed the chart and am bewildered by it. The institute does not explain the difference between the institute cumulative position figures and the consolidated cumulative figures, and it did not indicate whether the figures relate to thousands or millions of euro. The schedule is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are guessing. It is wholly unsatisfactory.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is utterly unsatisfactory and we will state as much in our reply. I have never seen such an unsatisfactory set of figures produced at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on such an important matter. If this is how WIT conducts its business at this level, it raises serious questions about its overall management and governance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes, absolutely. I am happy to do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are quite clear about our reaction. I will indicate we do not seek a response but instead reject the letter as utterly unsatisfactory, and that we want a proper response with proper explanations. We formally reject the letter. Does that satisfy the Deputy?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I propose we publish the correspondence to allow people to see what we mean. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 2457 is correspondence from Mr. Bernard Gloster, chief executive of Tusla, providing an information note requested by the committee in respect of contracts that were non-compliant with procurement guidelines. People will have observed the committee in recent months being strong in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Tusla seems to indicate that because a large number of locations were involved, when it accumulated-----