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Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is there information on that? I suggest the Department tries to get that information before passing legislation on the system. How many times do we hear in other parts of the State that somebody is assigned a social worker and the next year it is a different social worker? I am not suggesting it is happening with guardian ad litembut if it is, we want to take preventative action to ensure...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: Dr. Lynch mentions with regard to the public consultation on drafting this legislation that the Department had information from all the stakeholders involved. Did the Department get much feedback from the children themselves - perhaps not a child who was placed at the time but somebody who had been through the system and was then an adult and well able to give feedback? As part of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: This sounds to me like the HSE doing a public consultation about an aspect of the health service and not talking to the patients. It is fine to talk to the consultants, professional and representative bodies, trade unions, judges, the Courts Service, Tusla and everybody involved, but how about talking to the people who have been through it? I suggest that at this stage, before Dr. Lynch...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Department should talk to people who have come through the system or people who are still in the system. It has been said here by Mr. McBride that some of these minors are well able to speak for themselves and know precisely their views. There is a deficiency in the public consultation to date which I hope will be corrected before the legislation proceeds because I would like it to be...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: If the Department asks, some might come forward.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: I thank Dr. Lynch for that. He might not have thought some of it was directly related but it has followed through everything we have discussed here in public session. I learned something here today about who is eligible for guardian ad litem, or GAL, as Dr. Lynch refers to it, which is a term I hope I do not see in the new legislation, as I have said. Dr. Lynch will send the note to us. It...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: The whole picture.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is yet to be decided and we will watch developments carefully. Subject to the supply of the information, we will conclude our discussion in good faith. We assume it will come in the next week or two and I hope the witnesses will not leave it too long. Is it agreed to dispose of chapter 11 of the Comptroller and Auditor General report? Agreed. On behalf of the committee I thank all...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: County Boundary Reviews (24 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the Carlow boundary report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3134/17]

National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Second Stage (25 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: I join my colleague, Deputy Dara Calleary, in the debate on the legislation. As he has indicated, we agree with the Bill in principle and will support anything needed to improve services and efficiencies across the public service and the Civil Service, in particular. It goes without saying we will have a detailed discussion on Committee Stage, when the points my colleague has mentioned will...

National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Second Stage (25 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: We would be happy for some additional work from the National Shared Services Office, NSSO, to be carried out in Portlaoise and see if it would operate effectively. It would be terrible for the autonomy of local government if shared service work at local government level was to be taken over by the NSSO. Local authorities have taken the lead when it comes to shared services in areas such as...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 17 January 2017 (details supplied), the person or body that deals with new allegations against these institutions made after 4 November 2014, whereby enforcement and sanctions proceedings were not being conducted prior to 4 November 2014 but the new allegations relate to events prior to 4 November 2014; the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness. He is accompanied by Mr. Malachy Quinn, senior auditor. Apologies have been received from Deputies Josepha Madigan and Catherine Murphy. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 19 January. Are they agreed to? Agreed. The next item is correspondence...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is the industry the source of its funds?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: I refer to a paragraph in the letter from Monaghan County Council. This is correspondence received from Monaghan County Council requesting the committee to fully investigate EirGrid’s financial expenditure in the past ten years, the misuse of electricity consumers' money expended on lavish public relations campaigns, sponsorship and the failed North-South interconnector application of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will write directly to EirGrid. Is its debt included in the national debt?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: Can we send the correspondence to the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a response to the committee? I do not want to summarily dismiss it. It might not strictly be within our remit, but I would not like to be glib and dismiss it without at least getting a response from the Minister on the matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will do both. Obviously, being a commercial semi-State body, EirGrid representatives attend the other committee. In the meantime, we will write directly to the Minister to get a response to the letter to the committee. Is that agreed? Agreed. Item No. 264C is correspondence received from an anonymous source on unneeded expenditure in parts of the HSE when the moneys could clearly be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: The letter is to Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general of the HSE, from an anonymous source who signs himself as being a whistleblower. A copy of the letter was sent to the Comptroller and Auditor General.