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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: -----and we will test other witnesses to the limit. Then we will come to a conclusion at the end of the process, not here today. I want to put that on record in case Mr. Long thinks in some way we were not accepting his evidence. On behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I sincerely thank Mr. Long for travelling to Dublin to meet us today. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Company Registration (22 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: 354. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value of assets transferred to the State as a result of companies that were involuntarily struck off by the Companies Registration Office and any subsequent reinstatement to the organisations concerned for each of the past three years; the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure these assets are transferred to the State on...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (22 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: 563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 644 of 11 October 2016, her views on correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35750/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as the permanent witness to the committee. He is accompanied by Mr. John Riordan, deputy director of audit. Are the minutes of 10 November agreed? Agreed. I propose we hold over the opening statement of Cerberus until we meet its representative in the afternoon. The next item of correspondence in category B,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: Let me read the letter first and then we will discuss its content. The point the Deputy made is highly significant.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: We are in public session. We will discuss the logistics and activities of our meeting in private session. I want to read the letter into the public record. There are one or two fundamental issues in the letter and that is why I want it on the record. When I have done so, we will discuss it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will come back to the questions to the Comptroller and Auditor General shortly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: This is a letter from the New York office of Fortress Investment Group LLC, signed by Mr. David Meisels, managing director and head of litigation. It is dated 11 November and it was sent by e-mail to the clerk to the Committee of Public Accounts. It states: Re: Special Report 94 National Asset Management Agency's Sale of Project EagleDear Mr. Lenihan: I write in response to your letter,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will not discuss this at length because if Fortress representatives are coming in, we will want to discuss it with them. More important, we will have discuss to it-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: A gentleman is coming from the US to address the committee with an opening statement. If we have to let the Comptroller and Auditor General come back afterwards, we will do so. Out of courtesy to the person who is coming to assist the committee voluntarily, however, I want him to read his opening statement and I do not want any discussion until he is here this afternoon. I have no problem...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: I think-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: I think there is unanimous agreement on this. I propose that we have a discussion of our work programme for January, February and March in early December. We will not do it today or next week but I propose that at one of our private meetings in early December we prioritise our work programme for the areas we want to deal with early in the new year. It will be the new year before they come in.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes, I think it is. We will have a few meetings in December about our draft report. I think that it will take up our time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: In advance of that, we will have some information. In respect of the letter we received from Mr Niall Cody, which I referred to in correspondence a few moments ago, 168B(ii), the last item we asked him about was the note on the nursing homes scheme and the collection of fees by the Revenue Commissioners. There is a specific note on that so members can see that this was already in the back...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will check that ourselves because it says "Dear Minister" and we do not know to which Minister it is addressed. I presume it is the First Minister. We do not know whether it was the deputy First Minister. We will enquire about that. The next items are statements and accounts received since the previous meeting. Before we go to statements and accounts, I want to refer back to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: When will we receive the 2015 accounts for the Kerry Education and Training Board?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: The 2015 audit report for the Laois-Offaly Education and Training Board is clear. The 2015 audit report of the Road Safety Authority is also clear. However, severance payments of €145,000 were made during 2015 and associated legal costs amounted to €66,400. The authority did not obtain sanction for these costs from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, as...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: A letter was sent to Brown Rudnick and the gentleman to whom the Deputy referred. Letters were also sent directly to the home address of the former First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson, and Fortress, asking them to appear before the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: All those letters were sent more than one week ago and we have not yet received responses. We will have to wait until next week. If some of the individuals in question indicate a willingness to appear, we will certainly facilitate them. We must first await responses.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: No.