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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is that when a travel agent goes bust?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: In some years there can be no activity and other years there can be quite a bit of activity.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The aviation regulator has a role in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: When the aviation regulator makes a payment to people whose travel agent went bust, does it come out of this account or separately?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: On a personal note, I can confirm in 2016, I booked my holiday with Low Cost Travel Group which went bust. There are a good few people involved. I got full reimbursement last year so I am expecting-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----significant activity in the accounts in 2016. Mine will be a small percentage of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, it was about €3,000 or €4,000. I forget the figure. It was a few thousand anyway. I got all my money back. I was impressed ultimately. I had to wait three or four months but it all came right in the end. The system works. I was impressed by it. That is all I will say. The next item is the work programme. There is a draft work programme in front of us now. Today...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The secretariat is trying to tie down dates for Bord na gCon, which will hopefully come back to us tomorrow, and the Department of Justice and Equality regarding direct provision. We suggested last week that if we get a date for those meetings on 4 May or 11 May we can move the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Finance back a week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is to be confirmed. We are not going ahead with a meeting on 27 April. We will have no meeting on Thursday, 20 April which is Easter week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: If both come back we will move them back by a fortnight.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will put them in on 11 May and we will move Revenue and the Department of Finance back a fortnight.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will try to get the two of them in first.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. They are working on it. They are trying to finalise the date. That is good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will send out a note because members have particular interest in certain issues. When we have confirmation, the clerk will send us all out a note on that rather than waiting for the formal notification the following week. That is fine. There being no other business, at this stage we will suspend for a minute while the witnesses take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Item No. 7 on the agenda today is an examination of the 2015 appropriation accounts for the Department of Education and Skills, Vote 26. From the Department of Education and Skills we are joined today by Mr Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General, Mr. Dalton Tattan, assistant secretary, Mr. Keith Moynes from the finance unit, Mr. Christy Mannion from the higher education unit, Ms...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. I propose the committee writes to the chairpersons of the Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB, and Limerick and Clare ETB, requesting an immediate explanation as to why their accounts for 2015 have not been prepared to date. I call Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Thank you, Mr. Ó Foghlú. Will people please turn their mobile phones to airplane mode? Even when phones are on silent, when they are receiving calls, e-mails and so forth, they can still interfere with the recording systems. Some people who might be making important contributions might not be adequately picked up. It is important for us and the witnesses. I call Deputy Rock.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: The Deputy's time is up.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Does that cover the July scheme? Certain schools remain open for the month of July. Sometimes when the school does not provide it, children with special needs can receive home tuition for the July period also.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. Loftus might confirm the position and send us a note. He knows the programme I am talking about.