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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Data (2 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: 231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 25 biosimilar medicines approved for use by the European Medicines Agency that are currently marketed and in use here; if he is satisfied with the level of availability and usage of biosimilars here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4946/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (2 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: 232. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the uptake and usage of biosimilar medicines in health care relative to European usage rates; the specific measures he has taken to encourage their increased usage here; his plans to introduce proactive measures to increase the prescribing rates for biosimilars; the level of savings being realised per annum from the usage of same;...

Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to contribute to this debate. I am Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts and, therefore, have a particular point of view. I am expressing that view in a personal capacity and not on behalf of the committee. I acknowledge there was agreement in principle last autumn to establish a commission of investigation. Since then, however, the Committee of Public Accounts has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (1 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: 63. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the 308% increase in the numbers on trolleys in the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, between 2013 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4669/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Industry Regulation (31 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: 112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Private Security Appeals Board will be established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4356/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme (31 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: 617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Exchequer ultimately covers the cost of potential defaults under the new agri-loan credit fund for unsecured loans to be provided via a company (details supplied); if any calculations have been carried out by the Government and the company to estimate the default costs it may give rise to; and if he will make a statement on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness. He is accompanied by Mr. Malachy Quinn, senior auditor. Apologies have been received from Deputies Josepha Madigan and Catherine Murphy. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 19 January. Are they agreed to? Agreed. The next item is correspondence...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is the industry the source of its funds?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: I refer to a paragraph in the letter from Monaghan County Council. This is correspondence received from Monaghan County Council requesting the committee to fully investigate EirGrid’s financial expenditure in the past ten years, the misuse of electricity consumers' money expended on lavish public relations campaigns, sponsorship and the failed North-South interconnector application of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will write directly to EirGrid. Is its debt included in the national debt?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: Can we send the correspondence to the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a response to the committee? I do not want to summarily dismiss it. It might not strictly be within our remit, but I would not like to be glib and dismiss it without at least getting a response from the Minister on the matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will do both. Obviously, being a commercial semi-State body, EirGrid representatives attend the other committee. In the meantime, we will write directly to the Minister to get a response to the letter to the committee. Is that agreed? Agreed. Item No. 264C is correspondence received from an anonymous source on unneeded expenditure in parts of the HSE when the moneys could clearly be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: The letter is to Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general of the HSE, from an anonymous source who signs himself as being a whistleblower. A copy of the letter was sent to the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is unsigned. There is no name, no address and no mention of any part of the country. When HSE representatives are before the committee, members will be free to raise the issues referred to in the correspondence. Item Nos. 266C, i to iv, and 267C, i and ii, are correspondence received from an individual, enclosing various newspaper articles on the payment of public moneys by Dublin...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will put the Accounting Officer on notice that the committee will deal specifically with that funding. Is that agreed? Agreed. Item No. 271C is a copy of an email sent to Mr. Dara Connolly, president of the Irish Pharmacy Union, regarding deficiencies in the legal system. I propose that we note it. Is that agreed? Agreed. Item No. 272C, i and ii, is correspondence received from Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: Has everyone read it? Are there any queries on it? The unanimous view of the meeting is that the clerk should issue the attached letter to the individual concerned. The next item on the agenda concerns statements and accounts received since the last meeting. They will come up on the screen. The first item is No. 4.1, University College Cork, regarding a qualified audit opinion relating...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: What this means is that there is a trust fund that is sometimes a fund-raising activity for the college but which is not run directly by the college. Obviously, there are common members involving senior people in the college and the trust. It means that it is a stand-alone fund that is not included in the accounts of University College Cork. The Comptroller and Auditor General can clarify...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is happening with many third level institutions so the Comptroller and Auditor General-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: -----and it is not included.