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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are joined today by Mr. Andy Harkness from the Comptroller and Auditor General's office. He is accompanied by Jennifer O'Halloran. Apologies have been received from Deputies Bobby Aylward and Alan Farrell. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald sends her apologies for the morning session; she will probably be here for the afternoon session. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of meetings....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: This afternoon we will meet in private session and we will discuss the Kildare-Wicklow Education Training Board situation because some of the documents and correspondence received may have legal implications. There are High Court proceedings referred to in some of the correspondence. That is for the afternoon meeting. We will come back to Kildare-Wicklow Education Training Board.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy mean this afternoon?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: I do not know. We have to wait. The legal people will have some briefing note or briefing material for it. The legal people in the House have given a briefing to the secretariat for us to consider in private session this afternoon. We will just have to decide in private session. We are not in the business-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, we have correspondence-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Rather than doing it now-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----we will do it in the afternoon session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, exactly. We will come to the Kildare-Wicklow Education Training Board. We are conscious that the chairman and vice chairman of the board have resigned. There have been some developments. We will discuss that in further detail this afternoon. The next item is correspondence received. The first is items Nos. 957 and 966 from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: The work programme is on our agenda. It will come up in a few minutes. The next item is No. 955 from Mr. Graham Doyle, Secretary General of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. It is a follow-up to the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on 12 October on the Transport Infrastructure Ireland financial statements. It gives information and a breakdown of various...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy want us to hold it over?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will not clear it. We will hold that item over until next week. We will not note it until people have had an opportunity to read it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss the correspondence next week and come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will hold it over. We are not moving on from it. It will be on our correspondence list next week. The next item is No. 967 from Mr. Martin Shanahan, CEO of IDA Ireland, on contracts between IDA Ireland and ConnectIreland. The correspondence provides clarification on the verification process used by IDA Ireland in respect of payments to ConnectIreland.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: I suggest that the Deputy might assist the secretariat in drafting the specific letter to IDA Ireland and we will go back. I believe there is a misunderstanding all around. We use the process that was used for ConnectIreland. We did not want a direct comparison. It alerted us to the issue of how they do it themselves in regard to their own job announcements. That is what the committee...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Essentially it seems to be a survey. It is not a 100% questionnaire, it is only a survey.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes it is. It is only a survey. If the Deputy wants to talk to the secretariat about that we will issue a more specific letter. This is noted and published. Correspondence item No. 958 is from Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Charles Flanagan, dated 24 November 2017 in regard to an individual who has made a protected disclosure regarding the Irish Prison Service. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: Have I missed something? Which draft report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: The HSE was to reply. We received the Deloitte report and we are waiting on the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have not got it but we have been assured the committee will have it for next week.