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Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: A busy Accounting Officer would not be spending his Thursdays watching this meeting and maybe he needs to know what is the format, what happens. Dr. Love said that if it helped assist the Accounting Officer in marshalling his facts and being a bit more concise in his presentation to communicate effectively to the public through us, perhaps it was acceptable. I do not have as closed a view...

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss it in private session next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We could go there.

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Might the level 5 work be done at ETB level rather than-----

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: I believe we are finished. If any witnesses feel there is something they needed to say that they did not, I ask them to please do so, in case there was a point they wanted to make that they did not get to make. Do the witnesses from the Department of Education and Skills wish to add anything?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: The witnesses from Cork Institute of Technology, CIT, have no final comment. Do witnesses from Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT, have any final comments?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: As the Chairman who raised it with Professor Norton, I am happy with the response I got. It is a very minor role and very minor issue. I was not aware of it, but I wanted to know the extent of it. Professor Norton has answered it satisfactorily from my point of view. On behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I thank all our witnesses from the Department of Education and Skills, the...

Topical Issue Debate: Electricity Transmission Network (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: I spoke briefly to the Minister last Thursday about the unauthorised development by EirGrid of an electricity substation and electricity lines at Coolnabacca, County Laois. It is not just a question of a breach of planning laws. This is a situation where the actions of EirGrid have been contemptuous. It has broken the law, disregarded the local community and been dishonest in its public...

Topical Issue Debate: Electricity Transmission Network (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: I publicly invite the Minister to visit the site. The Minister, Deputy Flanagan, may have already invited him personally. The most upsetting point is that EirGrid has made a massive mistake. It knows this mistake cannot be rectified. A construction management plan cannot be submitted in an area covered by an appropriate assessment after work has commenced. It has been dishonest in its...

Topical Issue Debate: Electricity Transmission Network (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: He will inform us all.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: 349. To ask the Minister for Health when a procedure will be carried out on a person (details supplied) in Beaumont Hospital. [29624/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: 368. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29708/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Appeals (27 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: 440. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an appeal will be held for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29724/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: The committee is now in public session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: I think we were tired.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: The only item on our agenda after we get correspondence out of the way is our private meeting. The later start time was probably in that context because, as it is a private meeting, it might not take as long.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Today was the exception because we do not have any public witnesses coming in. That was the reason. We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General. For the benefit of people watching these proceedings, we are having a brief public meeting this morning to deal with routine correspondence and our work programme for the next couple of weeks. After a very short period, we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over because it is an outstanding issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is in the Revenue correspondence.