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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: We should continue with this line of questioning when the Secretary General comes before us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: I ask the members, witnesses and those in the Visitors' Gallery to turn off their telephones because the interference affects the sound quality of the transmission of the meeting. It applies particularly to those who leave their telephones on the desk in front of the microphone, which picks up the noise and means the proceedings cannot be transmitted properly. I ask members and witnesses to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: Will the officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform introduce themselves?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: Before I call on the Comptroller and Auditor General to introduce today's business, I should outline how the committee proposes to deal with Vote 25 and the chapters that relate to the Department in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. At a previous meeting with the Accounting Officer, because of the wide breadth of the issues that fall under the remit of Ms Tallon, the meeting went...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: May we publish Ms Tallon's statement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: Before I call on the next speaker, Deputy Naughten asked about the five authorities that have not sent back their reports. Can the Secretary General name the five local authorities that have not responded?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: Can we get those names?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: How many local authorities report altogether? What is the total number of reports expected?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: Only five out the 34 did not report, but the Secretary General cannot name those five.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: If those five are contained in the report, it should be possible to identify the five in question before the end of this meeting. Deputy Connaughton asked about the household charge and raised the issue of payments being paid but letters still being issued seeking payment. It seems to me that citizens who have complied and paid are being put to great inconvenience to clarify that payment...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: Can Mr. Dowling give some assurance to Deputy Connaughton and the committee regarding how these queries are being dealt with? Can they be dealt with more efficiently in view of the fact that these payments have been made?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: I call Deputy Nash.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: Will whoever has mobile telephones check them, please? There has been considerable interference since the beginning of the meeting and we do not know where it is coming from. Please check your telephones. If you leave them on the desk they will continue to interfere with the transmission of the meeting even though they may not be turned on.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: Ms Tallon may answer the question, but next week the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA, will attend the committee. This is the very issue with which we want them to deal. Your question is relevant to that, Deputy. You are ahead of your time.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: I call Deputy McDonald.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to comment on it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: The questions the Deputy has raised are as relevant to the agenda for for next week's meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: Ms Tallon might let us have a copy of that document.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

John McGuinness: NDFA officials will be in next week.