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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (16 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: 1520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when full payment under the basic payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24938/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (16 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: 1521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the basic payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24941/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: 1672. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when an upgrade will take place in the broadband in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25024/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mining Industry (16 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: 1674. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding a new application to mine coal (details supplied); when this matter will be dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25124/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will deal with the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report first and will deal with the other business of the committee later. We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is the permanent witness to the committee. He is accompanied by Mr. Andrew Harkness, director of audit. There will be two parts to our consideration of this report. In the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy for his presentation. I now call Mr. Watt to make an opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Watt for his presentation. Our first speaker is Deputy Farrell.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: Speakers have indicated in the following sequence: Deputies Madigan, Connolly and Cassells. I remind members that officials from the Central Bank will appear separately for the second half of this report.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Watt to repeat that as his comments are not being picked up owing to mobile telephone interference.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Cassells.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: Are any of these as a result of unfair dismissals?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: Some of these would have gone through an external process for unfair dismissals and this is the figure. Perhaps you would send us a note on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: We understand. Many of them avoided all that and reduced the legal costs. However, you might tell us if any of these were as a result of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: Are any of those payments specifically as a result of a figure determined by a body such as the Labour Relations Commission or were they all worked out internally? Are any of them a result of such an outcome?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: None of them is as a result of costs.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: Where would they be reflected? Would they not be in that?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: It is in the appropriation accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: Before concluding this session and proceeding to the next one, I forgot to record apologies from Deputies Alan Kelly, Marc MacSharry, Róisín Shortall, who may or may not be able to attend, and Peter Burke. I thank the witnesses from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for participating in the meeting and for the material they supplied. We will suspend the sitting to...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: We resume public session. We spoke in the first part of the meeting with representatives of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to our consideration of the Comptroller and Auditor General's Special Report No. 91 on the management of severance payments in public sector bodies. The report notes that the Central Bank had more frequent recourse to termination agreements...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: Whatever the Deputy wants.