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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 12:In page 9, line 30, to delete “whom” and substitute “which”.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy Cullinane for his contribution. I do not disagree with anything he said. I served my time under our Chairman and, as we say at home, "he learned me well" during my time on the Committee of Public Accounts. From a technical point of view the chief executive officer will be the Accounting Officer as is the position in every other State body. Section 17 of the National...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: He or she is an Accounting Officer.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: Section 16 (1) states that the chief executive shall be the accounting officer, for the purposes of the Comptroller and Auditor General Acts 1866 to 1998, in relation to the appropriation accounts of that office.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is no opposition per se, and as a Government and as Minister of State I totally accept what the Deputy is saying. It can be looked at again on Report Stage to satisfy the Deputy's concern. It was felt that based on the existing construct of the legislation and the construct of the Comptroller and Auditor General Acts, that what the Deputy was seeking was a belt and braces provision,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: I accept Deputy Calleary's point. I can get clarification and if the Deputy wants we can revisit it on Report Stage. There is no problem. I do not think there is any attempt to conceal in the Bill. If there is any further clarification needed or if I need to bring forward amendments on Report Stage to tighten it up, I will have no difficulty doing so.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy has gone on to the next group. I am accepting those amendments.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: We strayed into that conversation in respect of the last amendment and I have no difficulty accepting Deputy Cullinane's amendment because it brings clarity to the situation.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 16:In page 14, to delete lines 3 to 6 and substitute the following:"(3) The chairperson of the Board shall hold office for a term of 3 years.". I am opposing the deletion of the restriction on civil servants being appointed to the chair of the National Shared Services Office, NSSO, board because a limiting of the post of chairperson to those who are non-civil servants...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have no difficulty with what Deputy Cullinane is saying and will be glad to accept the amendment.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Cullinane is suggesting oversight. While I do not have a difficulty per sewith that, remuneration for board members as proposed in the Bill forms a wider part of the Government's public service pay policy and is set in the context of the relevant qualifications, duties and responsibilities of the board members as they apply across the entire public sector. Government pay policy is the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 19:In page 22, after line 13, to insert the following:“Sharing of data 35. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 or any other enactment, the data controller of Oifig an Ard-Chláraitheora (the first-named person) shall provide to the data controller of the Office such of the following certificates capable of being...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 20:In page 24, after line 11, to insert the following:“41. The National Shared Services Office.”.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (4 Jul 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: 410. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has provisions in place to encourage Irish graduate doctors to remain and work in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31294/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: 411. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to replace the 11 general practitioners who will be retiring in west Limerick over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31295/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (4 Jul 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: 412. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the contracts of GMS general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31296/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Jul 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy McDonald might go back.