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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: It would be helpful both for him and for ourselves. We are getting bits here and there every week. Is the 2015 audit cycle complete?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is 95% there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: A lot of third-level institutions are mentioned. I ask the Comptroller to pick the categories under which he thinks it would be helpful to summarise them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is higher here than anywhere else, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is probably a matter for the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach in the context of procurement because of where the rules come from. However, the Deputy is correct. It is remarkable. Ours is an island nation but we actually give more Government contracts outside Ireland than the continental countries which have companies operating right around. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: Getting a full and systematic sweep of the 300 or so organisations' audits and the problems arising broken down by category, including procurement specifically, would be a very useful exercise for the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: Sometimes there is a clear audit, but the Comptroller still draws attention to a technical difference.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: Every body which did not get a clear audit or in respect of which the Comptroller drew attention to something will be included.
- 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.