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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: This has come up several times before and the Comptroller and Auditor General has produced a special report which is due to be published next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is guaranteed. A special report will require a separate meeting. The Caranua letter relates to that issue. The next item on the agenda is No. 4, reports, statements and accounts received since the last meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: To whom would we write?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The person who wrote in last week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: To the previous correspondent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I suggest the committee draft a letter. The Deputy can liaise with the secretariat to make sure it fully and directly covers the point he is making.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is agreed. The next item is No. 4, reports, statements and accounts received since the last meeting. The first item concerns the Mental Health Commission, for which there is a clear audit opinion. However, there is a note in the financial statements on payments totalling €205,000 to a commission employee in respect of paid leave granted to finish a fixed-term contract. Are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: When we see a figure like this, we will write to the Mental Health Commission to ask for a detailed note on it. When we receive it, we can consider the matter. The next item concerns the Private Residential Tenancy Board, for which there is a clear audit opinion on the accounts for 2015. The next item concerns the Medical Bureau of Road Safety, for which there is a clear audit...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Under which Department does it come?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next item concerns the Inland Fisheries Board, for which there is a clear audit opinion on the 2015 accounts. The next item concerns Bord na gCon, for which there is a clear audit opinion on the 2015 accounts, but it is noted that the board considers preparation of the financial statements on a going concern basis remains appropriate based on ongoing State funding, increases in profits...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is now a regulator.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: All that goes into the National Lottery Fund account is the surplus from the operator. The prizes are paid out and there are administration expenses. There is an agreed percentage included in the legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Who will pay out the €12 million that was won last night? Who will writes that cheque? I thought it was the National Lottery which would do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps the Comptroller might think I am being pedantic - I do not know - but is it the operator's fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It has nothing to do with this committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The operator transfers money to the National Lottery Fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat to circulate a copy of the accounts in order that members will understand. The sale was an issue and we want to know what the circular flow of money is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a new regulator in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the national lottery regulator come under the Department of Justice and Equality?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a plan that the issue of gambling in general will come within the remit of the national lottery regulator in due course also.