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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Agencies (25 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will list all new State agencies or bodies established under the aegis of his Department since March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41878/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Agencies (25 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list all new State agencies or bodies established under the aegis of her Department since March 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41875/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Agencies (25 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 203. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will list all new State agencies or bodies established under the aegis of his Department since March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41876/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Agencies (25 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will list all new State agencies or bodies established under the aegis of his Department since March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41873/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Agencies (25 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 222. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will list all new State agencies or bodies established under the aegis of her Department since March 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41871/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a statutory instrument has been put in place in respect of the Protestant block grant, which has a fund of approximately €6.5 million per year and which was established in 1966 as a scheme of assistance for Protestant students receiving post-primary education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42052/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I agree with the Chairman completely. The Department of Finance has point-blank refused to do that. We have tabled various parliamentary questions on it and my party colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath has published legislation which would enable the IFAC to carry out that role. All the Department of Finance is willing to do at the moment is to cost an individual proposal but it will not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Yes, but some packages would include taxes as well as spending.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. Meaney, Ms Larkin and their colleagues before the committee today. I wish to take up one comment made by Ms Larkin in her opening statement on which she might provide members with a little information. I believe I heard two years ago the news the Irish Greyhound Board was signing contracts "with some of the most iconic global wagering names" to increase revenue. How much...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank Ms Larkin. That is good to hear.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Note 24, page 42, of the Bord na gCon annual report 2014 states under the heading, commitments and contingencies:The board is involved in legal cases, the outcome of which are not possible to predict. No provision has been made in the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2014. Have any major cases been settled recently? What were the costs that were not possible to predict...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: No. I am not a bit interested in the IGB’s costs. That would be a small element of it. I am sure the settlement and compensation, which might have been paid, is where the main money lies. I am sure the costs the IGB incurred to date were approved for in the 2014 accounts. Did it involve a payment by the IGB to settle the three cases?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: That would indicate the IGB will pay its own costs, the settlement and probably pay the other party’s costs.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: We are in a difficult situation because a large proportion of the IGB’s income is taxpayers’ money. There was a time some years ago when the taxpayers’ contribution was 20% or 30% of the board’s income. It is now heading towards 50%. The IGB is not a commercial organisation and could not exist without a taxpayer subvention of €14 million next year. We...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: In other words, there will have to be some disclosure when the board members come to sign off on the accounts for next year. Will the witnesses square that circle for me in the context of the confidentiality agreement?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thought the IGB settled something and it was just the final details that had to be signed off.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Okay. Three cases were mentioned. Who were the defendants in each case? Was it Bord na gCon or individual board members? To whom is the taxpayer paying money? I will cut to the chase. If these cases were before the High Court, then they would have been listed. I can google the High Court website to find the names in the cases.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Are the trainer and the owner two different people?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Was the third case against the chairman, Mr. Meaney?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Why would the taxpayer be indemnifying an individual board member for something he may have done wrong? Why did the board feel the taxpayer should hand out substantial money? Why would it indemnify a board member if he was before the High Court for a case the board felt it had to settle? Who approved the use of taxpayers’ money for that purpose?