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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will get to the bottom of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is not the issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. First, it was not a threat. He was apprising me of the Standing Orders of the House - that the CPP has the authority to consider any draft report. I take it the official was, to use his words, "trying to be helpful" to me by explaining to me Standing Orders of which I may not have been aware. It was not a threat, but it means ultimately – which I regard as a far more serious...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It was in the context of the final drafting of the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, if the Deputy remembers for the last two or three meetings, we had the legal advisers here who suggested textual changes where we were concentrating overly on individuals rather than offices. It was in the general context of the advice we were receiving from the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser, which was assisting us in the final drafting of the report. They made no...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am not sure. I cannot answer that now; we will get the answer. The answer to that question on procedures, which I have never encountered, is in the House.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I do not have the name of the person, but it was not the chairman who said that to me. I did refer previously to a conversation with the chairman of NAMA. The context of the conversation on the issue was that some people are suggesting there was an issue of the cost. He was not saying it was going to happen. He did not indicate that to me, he said it was a possibility, I did not take it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Advice can be good or bad.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: During that period, the parliamentary legal advisor was assisting us in terms of wording and references to individuals, sitting there for a couple of the final meetings. It was in that context he made me aware of something I had no knowledge of.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is worth remembering we are a committee of the House, we are not the House.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, it was in the context of the discussion we were having.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: May I clarify the matter? Mr. Collins is saying the company sold the asset back to the parent company of UCC. What was the cost of that transaction to UCC?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: It cost UCC €20 million to get the assets.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. Collins mentioned that there was a leasing agreement with someone. With whom?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: To whom did UCC pay the €20 million? Who was the recipient or beneficiary of that payment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: UCC paid it €20 million so that it could discharge outstanding liabilities.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: The transaction cost UCC €20 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: What was in it for the IMI, if Mr. Collins does not mind me asking? Could he give us that detail?