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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will send a letter seeking the information and then we will deal with the reply. If the Deputy wants to consult the committee secretariat and read the letter before it goes out, he may do so. When we get the information, we can discuss it at that stage. The next item concerns the 2016 accounts of Institute of Technology Carlow. There is a clear audited opinion, except for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Next are the 2016 accounts for the national training fund. Who has the national training fund?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is a clear auditor opinion as well, which is fine. The next item is the work programme, which is set for the next number of weeks. We are engaging with the education sector today and next week we will have representatives of An Garda Síochána. It is very important we contact An Garda Síochána to see if there has been any further progress on the audits that were...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Correct.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will have it for next week's briefing. It follows our report from before the summer. We need to have it on the agenda.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: The job is done. We all know the members of the Garda have a Policing Authority meeting in the afternoon next Thursday and they will have to be out of here at 1 p.m. We will get going at 9.30 a.m.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, or we can hold over correspondence for a week. We can be conscious of it if there is something urgent.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We can hold correspondence over for a week, bar there is something urgent. I would prefer to have it circulated as normal and we can seek agreement on what to do then. I would not like not to have it circulated. We will have it but we might not deal with it all. We can hold over some of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: No. We have not had any word on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have written to Deloitte about it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will follow it up in the morning.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have requested it and will follow it up in the morning. That is all I can say.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I welcome from the Department of Education and Skills its Secretary General, Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú; and from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Ms Marie Mulvihill, who is from the education expenditure and policy unit. Our meeting today relates to the education and training board sector. Last week we discussed correspondence dated 24 October 2017 from the Department...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will give Deputy Catherine Murphy one minute.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: At this stage, we will-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Does the section in question cover the transfer of property or cash?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, but it could cover-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: As I said earlier, we are getting a brief update on the transfer of properties as part of the redress with regard to the cost of the child abuse inquiry. I thank Mr. Ó Foghlú and his colleagues for that update. We look forward to getting an up-to-date response to the questions that have been raised here this morning. I will suspend the meeting briefly while some of the officials...