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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: We will certainly come back to that. I expect other members would agree with him in that regard.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: We will probably do so in February.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: I will deal with the work programme in a moment but that is a big item. It is the next item on the agenda. Financial statements received since 24 November include the Athlone Institute of Technology. It got a clear report. We also received the 2012 and 2013 accounts from the National College of Art and Design. It got a qualified opinion. The college kept inadequate records for the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: What is the qualified opinion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: How have the records been since? Are they up to date?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: Where is that update?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: I propose that we move on but I will not let this go.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: The Minister. I propose that we write to the Minister for Education and Skills, enclosing the details and highlighting the issues, and asking him to take immediate action. It is just not good enough that a public body with a turnover of €17.3 million can say it has difficulty producing accounts. We will write to the new chairman saying that he should do whatever is required to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: Bringing them in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: We have not decided to bring them in but it is an option if things do not work out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: When is the year end?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: So when will Mr. McCarthy be dealing with September 2015?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: Even at that there will still be a long wait.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: For now, we will write to the Minister who is responsible and the new chairman of the board and we will ask both of them for a response and we will see what happens with the audit in due course. We have the option of going further depending on how things evolve. The National Haemophilia Council got a clear audit report. The next item is Transport Infrastructure Ireland, which also got a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will add that. We will contact the relevant organisations to see which of them we can fit into the aforementioned dates. I think we should start with a few normal business meetings next year. Then we will agree a work plan for the following few months. If members want something in particular included in that work programme, they should say so now and we will note it or else they...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: You tell me. The Dáil is not sitting so-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: Maybe we could hold a morning meeting, or will that pose difficulties for the Deputy? At 11 a.m. perhaps?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: Okay, we will schedule it for 11 a.m. We will only be discussing a draft report and people will have received it in advance. Sorry, my apologies, it is not a draft report but a working paper prepared by the officials. If members could look at that before the meeting and prepare their observations on it, we can move quite quickly. If members only open it up when we arrive, however, we will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Policy on the Retention of Contemporaneous Notes in the Preparation of Board Minutes: National Asset Management Agency (14 Dec 2016)
Seán Fleming: We are now in public session to deal with No. 7 on our agenda, NAMA's policy regarding the retention of contemporaneous notes in relation to the preparation of board minutes. In the course of the committee's examination of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on NAMA's sale of Project Eagle, the committee had sought a considerable amount of information from NAMA. We are very...