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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. We will discuss that and perhaps agree at our next meeting which ETBs to invite. We have scheduled a November date for them, so we will try to finalise which to invite next week. The next items of correspondence are Nos. 813C(i) to (iii), inclusive, dated 13 October, from an outsourcing company called Forward Emphasis. The company is trying to ascertain whether properties of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. As the current Chairman, I raised this matter arising from a previous Committee of Public Accounts that dealt with the Social Insurance Fund, which handles unpaid amounts by employers in respect of PRSI, redundancy and insolvency payments. There was talk of collecting money from a widow who got something that she should not have got. After discussing the Social Insurance Fund and an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The State has no system in place whatever, which is extraordinary. I would consider it a contingent asset to the State but there is no mechanism in place. Therefore-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will take the matter up further. Last year, I tabled a parliamentary question on the matter on an individual basis but we need to formally follow up the matter now. We will ask the company to contact the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform directly and we will write to the Department directly asking it to put a system in place and advise us accordingly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Nobody does the transfer and the matter is just left lying there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is a bit like people who die intestate where one must rely on the solicitor, and I am probably not being exact when I say the following, to conduct a transfer. In terms of whoever liquidates the company, there can be an asset but the original owner may have left this jurisdiction.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----for a detailed note on the issue and its plans to deal with the issue that it has not dealt with at all up to now. Is that okay? Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Where is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General might also send us a note because that is the account on which I got information through a parliamentary question..
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: This issue is, and it comes back to another question, what other accounts are out there that are not lodged to the central fund that we do not know about. This seems to be one of those accounts. We know that all of the FEOGA payments do not go through the Central Fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: A sum of over €1 billion comes to Ireland out of that fund. It does not come through the State accounts or the Estimates, and does not come through the Dáil at any stage. We have discussed this matter when we got the FEOGA accounts because the matter arose when we had the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine here. There are a few extra accounts out there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General might give us a note on these extra accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. Like the environment one such as the motor tax account and social insurance-----