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- 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...
- 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.