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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. I will ask the secretariat to formally arrange that briefing with the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser and to come back to us with a suitable time. No. 332C, dated 8 March 2017, is from the HSE, regarding correspondence we received last week about staff of the former charity Console. This was received late yesterday evening. The issue here is, essentially, that there were...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I do not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the Department of Health, which is the overall body.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Who was to respond?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: On that we are agreed. Sometimes they will say they cannot give us that legally until the liquidation has been completed. However, somebody has to pay the staff in the meantime and if it is not the HSE, we will have to raise the matter directly with the Minister for Health because the staff cannot be left out of pocket.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will raise the matter with the parent Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Members appear to be ad idem on this issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: If someone sends a letter to the committee on the issue, we will follow it up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write directly to the liquidator, Health Service Executive and Minister for Health. We are all agreed that we will not let this issue go. No. 4 is reports, statements and accounts received since our previous meeting. The first, No. 4.1, is the Health and Social Care Professionals Council 2015, which receives a clear audit opinion, except in respect of non-recognition of pension...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Accounts for five years have been submitted for Dublin Docklands Affordable Housing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: There was no activity. The Comptroller and Auditor General raises an interesting point. The committee asked that he provide a report on all the companies audited by his office in respect of the timeliness of the report. As he indicated, some of the companies audited by his office have subsidiaries which we did not ask him to examine. It is not good enough that the committee is informed of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: In other words, the Comptroller and Auditor General consolidated unaudited subsidiary accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Why were they not published?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Was the Dublin Docklands Development Authority required to submit the accounts of subsidiaries to the Oireachtas?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is required to submit them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will be conscious in future that other companies may also have subsidiaries. Do any other major organisations have similar groups of subsidiary companies?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: For all the racetracks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Have they submitted them directly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We may ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to provide the committee with a schedule of all the subsidiaries of Bord na gCon, including the various racetracks, and their final accounts, if they have all been audited.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is good. It would be useful to the committee to have the list. No. 5 is the work programme. Representatives of the Health Service Executive will appear today to discuss specific issues only. We will then have three meetings on education, one each with the Department of Education and Skills, Higher Education Authority and universities of Limerick, Cork and Galway. On Thursday, 6...