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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: That will be a good report when we get it in the next couple of weeks. For now, I must formally name the organisations and that the Committee of Public Accounts has noted the laying of the accounts before the Oireachtas. We normally name the organisations and that the Committee of Public Accounts has noted the laying of the accounts in the Oireachtas. Any query anyone has will come back to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: This will take us to July with the other matters, such as finishing Project Eagle and the special report that we get on the redress board. Will we get any other special reports?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: They are two different issues. One is the nursing home issue, the fair deal scheme costs and so on but the second issue is that there is up to €180 million of patient funds managed by the HSE on behalf of patients. That is the patients' money which they let the HSE manage when they are in an institution. It is a separate topic from the fair deal scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: Both are on our list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is what we have to discuss. No date has been set.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have no timescale for these matters. We will prioritise them in the next few minutes. We decided in December or November to send the correspondence about Horseracing Ireland to the parliamentary legal adviser to give us a clear opinion. We were to have that within the next two weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: It will be back on our agenda and we will decide then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: A fortnight.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: We cannot direct the Comptroller and Auditor General but he can listen to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: It sounds to me as if we could have a public accounts committee specifically for the HSE at the rate we are going. We are putting it all in the mix. I think the Deputy would agree that if we were to stand back until there was a report in 2018, we could probably still do some more-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is its annual report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: The annual report normally comes out around June.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is related to the work programme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Courts Service is under our remit-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is a separate stand-alone organisation that is not under our remit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: Who is it accountable to?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are then into whether it is the Judiciary or the Courts Service.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Courts Service is accountable to us but the judges are not and it is judges who have oversight on this matter instead of the Courts Service. That is the dilemma we have. Clearly, there is a lack of public accountability and perhaps that is something we have to deal with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: The HSE has its annual report, some of which contains financial statements, but there are probably 100 other pages in it where the HSE tells us all the good news and how wonderful it is in respect of the different things it is doing. The committee might consider writing to the HSE about the three, four or five items and telling it that it wants a specific section in the annual report on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: The only immediate urgency is the fact that we have meetings arranged for next week and the following week. It takes a couple of weeks lead-in for a Department to get ready to come here so we must decide the next one or two straight away and maybe have the full list of everything we mentioned here today next week. It is up to us then. The secretariat can give us a draft and we can move...