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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Good, because it seems there are the operator, the regulator, the National Lottery Fund and the Exchequer which also has a role. Somebody else then pays out the money through the different Departments. The committee would like to know what the flow is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: It might help if the chapter for last year was circulated. We could come back to it if there were queries. We have the accounts for the national lottery regulator. I suspect it may be his first set of accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Possibly, as he has not been there long. The next item concerns the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, for which there is a clear audit opinion. The statement on internal financial controls discloses expenditure of €927,000 on services not openly tendered for. We have to write to the board again straightaway to see what is going on. A letter will be sent to the chairman or...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, the Comptroller and Auditor General has drafted or is working on-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We received a report about a week or so ago on the common themes which had come up. I have seen it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is more recent.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: When we finish dealing with Project Eagle, we will deal with this report. The Comptroller and Auditor General has drafted a working paper for us to consider. I have seen it in the last few days, but I have not yet had a chance to read it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is telling me that we have to move smartly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are making progress. Our work programme is as follows. Today, we will have the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. Next Thursday, we will have the Department of Health and the HSE to deal with patient private fund accounts and their financial statements. We will have a note on the fair deal scheme and the health repayment scheme donation fund. It is not a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: On the children's hospital, we wrote a detailed letter last week to the new national paediatric hospital development board and to the Secretary General of the Department of Health who was involved in the planning before the board was established. We asked for a detailed response on the assumptions used in the costs. I am conscious that the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health has also...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Members should volunteer and put their names down. They can contact the secretariat. Nobody else has come forward yet. Members might want to judge it based on the dates particular institutions will be represented here. The secretariat is working on the detailed timescale in that regard. We have a gap on 13 April which we will fill next week. We have not confirmed attendance. On 4...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Does it deal with where the revenue from the motor tax goes after it is collected?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I think we all know what we are talking about there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is the local government fund up for discussion today?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: That topic can be raised today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: On the outstanding issues vote accounting and budget management, and then we have the procurement and management of contracts. That is one of the outstanding issues and then NTMA. We have only a couple of outstanding issues to deal with.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is item No. 6, procurement and management of contracts. It is there specifically. We do have a date. I guarantee it is on our work programme and it will definitely be dealt with, but we do not have a date yet.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are now dealing with Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government. We are also dealing with the Comptroller and Auditor General report 2105, chapter 4 regarding central funding to local authorities and chapter 5, progress on land aggregation. From the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government we are joined by Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General; Ms Maria...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy for his contribution. On the figures for Irish Water in 2015, the Comptroller and Auditor General made a separate reference to funding for Irish Water which Mr. McCarthy did not mention. Are the figures for 2015 correct? Mr. McCarthy has said €222 million was provided for capital expenditure, €399 million for operations and by way of a subvention, while...