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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Aylward wishes to ask a question.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: No. What we are looking at here is the funding from all central funds to the local authority. How it spends it is a matter for the Local Government Audit Service and not for us. However, money is going to local authorities from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, the Department of Rural and Community Development, local...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: No. It is only looking at spending by Departments into the local authorities, but not how local authorities spend.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: Who are they?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We can consider it. We will write straight away to get the membership of it. I am sure it is on the website. We will have it for next week. Once the money goes into the estimates process in the local authority, we cannot delve into what local councillors do after that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: They are on the list and the schedule. There being no other business for public session the public part of our meeting has concluded, and we will meet again in public next Thursday, 25 January, when we will meet the Valuation Office to deal with Chapter 11 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2016 report on the national property revaluation programme. We will also look at related Vote 16.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Galway people coming in?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I was told before Christmas they were not available today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: It was from their side. We have them on the list before Christmas.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I know the information was passed on to me.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: It was from their side. The date did not suit them.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (23 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction work will begin on a new school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3208/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (23 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the spouse of a person can use the income thresholds for FIS as the means test figures to grant the spouse carer's allowance in circumstances in which the conditions are being met and if the spouse is in receipt of FIS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3200/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined from the Comptroller and Auditor General’s office by Mr. Séamus McCarthy as permanent witness to the committee and he is accompanied today Ms Patricia Devlin, senior auditor. Apologies have been received from Deputy Marc MacSharry. Are the minutes of the meeting of 18 January agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising? One issue arises regarding the periodic...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will note it and forward it to the commission for its consideration. I do not propose that we open new ground on the Grace case given that the commission is up and running. Is that agreed? Agreed. Members are, however, free to discuss the correspondence, although the committee will not do so formally.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: it will examine 47 cases, of which the Grace case is the first.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I propose that we send the documentation to the commission in case it is not aware of some of the information provided. As I stated, once the correspondence has been noted, members are free to follow up on any issues that may arise in a manner that they believe to be appropriate. The committee will hand over the issue to the commission as I do not believe we should start addressing new...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I propose that, in addition to sending the correspondence, we send a transcript of this part of our meeting in order that the Deputy's views are conveyed directly to the commission. We will send the transcript when it is received in the coming days. We have stated several times that none of the members accepts that this was an independent report. It was a report commissioned and paid for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: As a result of last week's meeting, at which we discussed the State Claims Agency and the cost of legal fees, we are in the process of writing to the HSE to seek a progress report on the implications of its open disclosure procedure and how the procedure is working out. When we receive correspondence on the matter from the HSE, we will have a basis on which to follow through on the points...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We disagreed with him.