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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Directives (21 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the fire arms Directive has been implemented here (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8305/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Training Programme (21 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: 655. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, regarding job activation programmes for persons on jobseeker's allowance, any person in his Department or on behalf of his Department is inviting persons to participate in any programme in Army barracks in view of the fact that some persons were notified that there would be a two-week course in the Army barracks in Cork and a further...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: The committee is now in public session. We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to this committee. He is accompanied by Ms Georgina O'Mahoney. Apologies have been received from Deputies Marc MacSharry and Josepha Madigan. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 2 February 2017. Are the minutes...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: We asked the question and had noticed on previous correspondence that NAMA had reference to various meetings. They call some of them "board only", and they call some "board meeting". I asked what the difference is. I am told that the "board only" were the board members without any of the executives present and that the "board meeting" included the executives who were recording it. We...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am straying, but I have never seen any minutes of the board only meetings, have I?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Board only? Are they there?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Grand.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: So Mr. McCarthy's report included board only minutes and board meetings?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Fine. I thank Mr. McCarthy. I just wanted to clarify and distinguish them. Who took the minutes at the board only meetings?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: It may have been that the secretary to the board was there but maybe none of the executives. Fine. If there is an issue, we will come back to it, but it seems to be a minor point. We will circulate that if it has not been circulated. Correspondence category C is from private individuals and any other correspondence. Item No. 281C, formally notes correspondence received from Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is appreciated and we have noted the letter and we have read it. I thank Deputy Cullinane. Item No. 284C is a letter dated 1 February 2015, from a company called Flow East that was involved in a bid process run by NAMA for a property portfolio in the Czech Republic. The letter raises concerns about the process conducted in the disposal of the Savarin portfolio. The letter states that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will seek a detailed letter first with a view to inviting them in to discuss it. I can only think of the motorways project. They all started at a figure which escalated as time went on. Eventually, they began to get their original estimates and the final prices to come a little bit closer. It looks as if all those lessons on what were the biggest capital projects at the time have not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: We can ask the Comptroller and Auditor General for a comment. The note states they are accountable to the committee. They have incurred a lot of expenditure to date. We can bring them in immediately to discuss their future plans. That is for definite.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: No. We will seek information directly from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board which is the contracting body.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General might just tell us-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to assist us in that regard.

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...