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Ethical Public Investment (Tobacco) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the positive response and support from the Government and Sinn Féin for the Ethical Public Investment in Tobacco Bill 2017 on Second Stage and when it progresses to the pre-legislative scrutiny stage or Committee Stage, whichever is decided on by the appropriate authorities. We are all singing from the same hymn sheet on this issue. We all agree something needs to be done and...

Ethical Public Investment (Tobacco) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to move the motion that this Bill be brought to Second Stage and that we would have a debate on it in the Chamber. I am also pleased that the Minister of State, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, is present to respond to it, and I understand he has an interest in this area. That is very helpful. I look forward to the Bill passing Second...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as permanent witness to the committee and he is accompanied today by Mr. Shane Carton, director of audit. There are just a few items of correspondence since our meeting of yesterday. In category A correspondence, we have correspondence items 374, 378 and 379, the opening statements from the University of Limerick,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will ask the secretariat to liaise on the date. We will put them on advance notice, even at this point. That is as much as we can do this morning. We can note and publish the response received yesterday evening in any event. In category C, correspondence item 380C received on 29 March 2017 from Waterford Intellectual Disability Association relates to matters raised during our meeting...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is on the record, so that is noted. It can be published.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: They are here at 2.30 and I believe the Deputy is the lead speaker.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: The work programme is now on the screen. The only difference since yesterday is that on 22 June we have scheduled the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to deal with its accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General special report No. 95 on financial reporting in the public sector. We will need to arrange a separate meeting on the special report published earlier this week on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is the Courts Service. It relates to the repayment of fines. Those fines would have been paid into the Courts Service and the repayments will need to start with it. It is part of the process.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Finally, one point I spotted in the report yesterday relates to the appropriation account for the Garda Síochána Vote. Is the latter separate from the vote for the Department of Justice and Equality?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: The report states that the wording of the appropriation account in respect of internal controls for 2015 which has been signed off must now be amended to record the fact that there was not proper internal control in that. It is also stated that the new wording will have to be agreed with the Comptroller and Auditor General. What is the process for amending the appropriation account reports?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: the statement of internal financial control.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: So they got it done before.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: In advance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have agreed that the Garda Síochána, the Department of Justice and Equality and the Courts Service have to deal with issues relating to fines, the courts, etc.. Obviously, they must also deal with the Templemore issue. This matter has been referred to us by the Garda Síochána and we have to deal with it. Separately, we have a meeting with the Department of Justice...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: There is a value in them, when they come in, knowing the extent of the fines, the amounts collected and the financial aspect of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: They could not possibly know it just yet. They should have known but they do not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will give them at least a few weeks. We will hold the meeting in May or June. We will not set it for April. We must give everybody involved a few weeks to try to assemble the information, otherwise they would merely state at the meeting that they are working on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay. Is that agreed? We will schedule it but we have a number of meetings scheduled.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will put them on notice. The secretariat will contact them formally and put them on notice, with a date to be agreed. That is it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will put it on the work schedule. Those are all the items in respect of correspondence. We have just dealt with the work programme.