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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: That issue was discussed extensively by the previous Committee of Public Accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: -----with recommendations as well.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (30 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will include Quality and Qualifications Ireland employees in the public service common pool; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25484/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (30 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the funding that was allocated by his Department and Irish Water to each group water scheme in County Meath in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25806/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (30 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the additional funding each group water scheme in County Meath received from his Department and Irish Water in monetary terms as was agreed in the confidence and supply arrangement in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25807/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (30 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the percentage increase or decrease in funding for each group water scheme in County Meath since the formation of the Government in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25808/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 488. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to initiate a HSE care programme for persons with Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25854/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (30 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in County Westmeath who have not received 85% of their total 2016 payment under GLAS 1, GLAS 2 and AEOS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25503/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 70. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to extend child benefit entitlement to parents of full-time students in second level education that are over 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25837/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations and the number of gardaí in each in County Meath as of 30 April 2016. [26122/17]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: Listening to the evidence here this morning and what has been said to my colleagues, what is most striking, from this last exchange in particular, is the divergence of views, especially in that last exchange between Mr. Ruane and Mr. Culhane. Sometimes the early exchanges were bordering on hostility towards each other, with people needing to make freedom of information, FOI, requests to get...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: That is an important point.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: That is a fair point in terms of Mr. Kelly saying they had no real assistance and he would sympathise with them. I asked whether it was wilful misappropriation or incompetence because, going back to Mr. Culhane's letter to Mr. Kelly from February 2017, in point No. 1 on the second page of the letter, he says that on several occasions Mr. Kelly was reported to have stated in relation to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: In what context were they used? Mr. Kelly is not denying that he said that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: The words in particular were "led away in handcuffs".

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: This is very important because Mr. Kelly has just said that he had sympathy for the people in the college-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: -----and the large sums of money they were being expected to handle with no appropriate training whatsoever. Mr. Kelly has now admitted that he said that people would be led away in handcuffs but that it was taken out of context. It is an important point and has been picked up in the press, and I want to explore that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: I am going to touch on that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: Is that Mr. Culhane's interpretation of that remark?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: Returning to Deputy MacSharry's earlier comments, we put it to Mr. Culhane about keeping it in-house and dealing with the problem. In Mr. Culhane's letter of October 2015 to the Commissioner and deputy commissioner, he used several adjectives in respect of Mr. Barrett in that letter. The journalists sitting in the Gallery can tell him the difference between a factual straight report and a...