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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to it to seek the information it had available prior to handing over to the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: It does. If there are structural or systemic failures in the costing of projects, we need to know about them. In recent days concern has been expressed about the manner in which this project was allowed to reach a certain point with a low estimate. If full and final figures had been known at that stage - we have not yet seen them - people might have come to a slightly different decision....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: A detailed report is required from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and the Secretary General of the Department. We will take the matter further when it has been received. The development board and the Secretary General are both accountable to the committee. The next item is No. 289C, correspondence received from Deputy Bobby Aylward on a request from the Irish...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: It has come from the Irish Greyhound Owners and Breeders Federation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: Representatives of some greyhound trainers have come to my constituency office to talk to me about this issue. I presume it is the same one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will wait for the correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next item is No. 290C, correspondence received from Philip Lee Solicitors on the microchipping of dogs. The correspondence received by the committee is a copy of correspondence sent elsewhere. I suggest we note it. The next item is No. 291C, correspondence received from Matt Shortt of Tipperary County Council on the Local Authority Waters and Communities Office and the water...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am informed that it relates to salmon stocks in rivers. We will examine the further correspondence and note this correspondence until we receive-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: It could still be within the remit of the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: It seems to be-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have written to them and are awaiting a reply. When we receive it, we will come back to the matter. No. 4 is statements and accounts received since the last meeting. No. 4.1 is the statement and accounts of the Insolvency Service of Ireland which has received a clear audit opinion. No. 4.2 is the statement and accounts of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: The majority of that will have gone in 2016.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: There was correspondence from some of the people concerned several months ago. I told them we could discuss it when we got the annual report. We will dig out the previous correspondence and bring it forward to next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: If the Comptroller and Auditor General has done a special report it will have to go into our work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. The next item is No. 4.3, a clear audit report for Grangegorman Development Agency. No. 4.4 is the Gathering Project 2013 Limited, and the 2012 and 2013 accounts, on which there are clear audit opinions. No. 4.6 is a clear audit opinion for the Royal Irish Academy of Music. The internal financial control system discloses that the academy applies the minimum threshold of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next item on the agenda is the work programme. It confirms what we have agreed. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine are here today and next Thursday it will be the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. On Thursday, 2 March it will be the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, dealing with the environment, community and local government and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are working on this and the Comptroller and Auditor General is making suggestions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: The secretariat is currently working on the dates for the different organisations. By next week we may know who is coming in on what day. There are no items under any other business other than to confirm that we will meet in private session at 2.30 p.m. today to discuss our report on Project Eagle. We will suspend while witnesses take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: We are joined by representatives of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to examine Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Chapter 7 of the Comptroller and Auditor General report 2015 on EU refunds and levies in the agriculture sector. From the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, we are joined by Mr. Aidan...