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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Waters sends us a detailed note separately on this new group that was not there in 2015? It was not a principal item for today. I apologise to Deputy Madigan.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I thought the one in the Montague Hotel in Portlaoise is run by a company that runs one in Bray or somewhere in Wicklow. I would merely make that observation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay. Maybe they had one.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Mary Lou McDonald is the next speaker. As it is 5p.m., she will be the last speaker.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (16 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building projects for both permanent and temporary accommodation; the cost of this expenditure for each of the past five years in circumstances in which the funding was provided to build accommodation on lands owned by religious orders, dioceses or parishes in the Roman Catholic, Protestant and other religions and faiths;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (16 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 431. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital building projects for both permanent and temporary accommodation; the cost of this expenditure for each of the past five years in circumstances in which the funding was provided to build accommodation on lands owned by religious orders, dioceses or parishes in the Roman Catholic, Protestant and other religions and faiths; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Workplace Relations Commission (16 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 617. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he will provide the information requested in Parliamentary Question No. 822 of 11 April 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23213/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Government has recently confirmed that it will be introducing FEMPI legislation for 2017 - a Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill. We all know that legislation, among other things, deals with pay and pensions for public servants. The Government has agreed that new talks will take place to extend the Lansdowne Road agreement which by definition will require amendment...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I wish to raise the issue of what I believe is discrimination against children who started primary school in 2016 and those who will start in 2017 from consideration and allocation of resources under the new special education teaching resource model. The Minister will be aware that I raised this with the Minister in a parliamentary question on 3 May 2017 on this very topic. Parents and...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I understand why the Minister made the decision. As he said, it was partly due to financial and administrative reasons and the time taken for diagnostic tests. He referred to socioeconomic criteria for schools. The profile involves an averaging system, but children are not average. Every child is different. That is the essential point that is being lost in the system. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children under five years of age attending autism specific preschool or early intervention units funded by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23590/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children aged five, six, seven and eight years of age, respectively, in autism spectrum disorder units and early intervention units in mainstream primary schools and other units funded by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23591/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children aged five, six, seven and eight years of age, respectively, in ASD units and early intervention units in mainstream primary schools and other units funded by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23723/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 165. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider amending the regulations for persons applying for the State contributory pension; his views on whether examining a situation in which persons had contributions up to 47 to 48 years during that period but had no contributions resulting in their pensions being reduced, notwithstanding the fact that they could have easily had...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have a quorum and the committee is now in public session. We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, a permanent witness at the committee, who is accompanied by Mr. Mark Brady, deputy director of audit. I have no list of apologies to be recorded so far. The next item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 11 May 2017. I have just had a quick...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are not holding over the minutes but I will give the Deputy a bit of latitude. They were draft minutes not approved.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Grace’s whistleblower?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are coming to that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely. Before we go into public session with Bord na gCon, we will have a private session on that exact issue and, obviously, the Templemore issue. We have two issues to talk about in private session before we go into public session. The next item is correspondence received since the last meeting. Nos. 449 A and 452A, carried over from the last meeting with Bord na gCon, are the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, more homework. We will not have a public quiz on it, however.