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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I will ask a member of our staff to liaise with a member of staff from the Department and find the most convenient way for us to acquire it and circulate it in hard copy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I am sorry about that but Mr. Griffin can understand that I want to complete the task now that we are here this morning.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I now call on Mr. Griffin to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Griffin. Speakers have indicated in the following sequence: Deputy Connolly, Deputy Aylward, Deputy Cullinane, Deputy MacSharry and Deputy Catherine Murphy. The first speaker will have 20 minutes; the second will have 15 minutes and all speakers after that will have ten-minute slots.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: The Deputy has one minute remaining.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: One of the three rivers that have been mentioned - the River Nore - passes by my front door.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Deputy Aylward is not the only person with an interest in this matter. Can Mr. Griffin explain what he meant when he said the river is below the conservation level? Can the Department work with fishing clubs to try to restock rivers? If the Department thinks a river is below the conservation level, does it walk away from it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Griffin to explain what this means.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: When no fishing is taking place on a river in order to allow it to restore its salmon stocks naturally, how long does the process generally take? Does it take five years, ten years or 30 years?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I understand if Mr. Griffin does not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Griffin send us a detailed note?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Absolutely. I call Deputy Cullinane.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: On that, and I thank the Deputy for asking that question and I will not take from his time, what service level agreement does the Department have in place with RTÉ for the €179.1 million it gave it in 2016?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I understand all that. Go back to the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: No, go back to the question. Mr. Griffin is the Accounting Officer. He wrote a cheque for €179.1 million of Irish taxpayers' money and gave it to a third party, RTÉ, a commercial semi-State body. What service level agreement and contract does he have in place with RTÉ for that €179 million? I am not asking about RTÉ's responsibility, I am asking about Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: That is shocking. The biggest item of expenditure of the Department, €179 million, is handed over to RTÉ. We all know RTÉ and we watch it, but Mr. Griffin is telling me he does not even know if he has a service level agreement. I take it if he had one he would know the answer to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: No, let us pursue this line.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Does Mr. Griffin think he should have a service level agreement in place? He is handing over taxpayers' money. Should he have a service level agreement? If he does not think so we certainly think so. We are here every week of the year when publicly funded Government Departments hand over substantial funds to third parties on the basis of work being carried out. We would expect a public...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I just wanted to put that in.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We might have to.