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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: We have a quorum and the committee is now in public session. We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, a permanent witness to the committee, who is accompanied today by Mr. John Riordan, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Alan Farrell. The first item on the agenda today is the minutes of the meeting of 25 October. Are they...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: The next item is 140B. It is correspondence received from Ms Eilis Finan, former member of the NAMA board. The correspondence outlines that while Ms Finan is happy to appear before the committee, she left the board on 21 December 2013 and, as such, feels that her input may be very limited. If the committee agrees, we can inform Ms Finan that her presence is not required. There are other...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over. Essentially, we previously decided that we would invite all of the board members who were on the board during the period of 2013 to 2014. Ms Finan is confirming that she resigned or left the board in December 2013 and was not there when any decisions were made. She has no papers, no immediate recollection and very limited possible input to our committee. The other...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes. We will have to make a decision on Ms Finan this morning because they are due in next week. We will deal with it in private session shortly. The next item is item 148B. It is correspondence received from NAMA as a follow up to information requested. We will note this correspondence and put it into the Project Eagle folder. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item is item...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: I agree with the Deputy because the PIMCO letter is an important letter from our public hearing's point of view. Immediately after this, we will forward it to NAMA for a detailed response because it will not have received this, as it is a letter to the Committee of Public Accounts. We will address those issues when representatives of NAMA come before us again.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: No. We will discuss that issue later on and maybe-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: I think we are agreed that it is a significant letter. I will read it into the public record shortly. It will take a few minutes. People will understand the queries better when the letter has been read into the record. We will come back to this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: I would be happy to write again.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely. We will deal with that when it is read into the record. That is important.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: We now come to items 167B(i) and (ii), correspondence from NAMA attaching a document on impairment figures and Project Eagle. We have noted and published that and will put it in our Project Eagle folder. Category C is correspondence from private individuals. Items 120C(i) to (iii) deal with a letter from an individual on alleged illegal state aid to the construction sector. The issues...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes. I am giving a timetable now and saying that we are sending it to the parliamentary legal adviser. Essentially, we will be busy until December with our current programme. I am saying that we will have dealt with this by the end of January. I am putting a specific timetable on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. I am saying it will be by the end of January and I hope we can meet that. That is what we want to do. Item 127C is an e-mail from the Charity Regulator, Ms Melissa Moloney, responding to a letter from the committee about a charity in Bantry. A more substantive response is to follow. We note that. Is that agreed? Agreed. Items 128C(i) and (ii) comprise a letter from Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: How long will it take to publish them after that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: Once the Comptroller and Auditor General signs off, it will be back to the board to publish.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: Item 133C is a letter from the HSE regarding Meath disability service and an individual who wrote to us regarding housing arrangements. The response is comprehensive. We will forward this to the individual concerned. I propose we also inform him that as his complaints have been considered through the proper for a, including the Office of the Ombudsman, the committee considers the matter...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: I will not give the name. It is in the correspondence. The relevant items are 145 to 147C in today's correspondence. The name of the gentleman is on the screen but I do not want to publish his name at this stage. You can check your file afterwards if you want to follow it up further. Items 149C(i) and (ii) are correspondence received from the executive directors of Trócaire and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: I will make a suggestion to the Deputy. Perhaps we should take the opportunity to review the reply from NTMA dated 16 September. If you wish, we will hold the correspondence over until the next meeting. Have a look at it. The NTMA representatives maintain they are drawing up a policy to deal with the matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: It will come in. We will get the NTMA 2016 annual report next year. We brought it up in the context of the NTMA annual report and we will do that again.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: That is what the agency representatives have said. When they are before the committee next year we will check it out. We will send it back to the two organisations and to the other committee, because it is under the policy area of that committee. Item 152C is a letter from an individual referring to a freedom of information request that was sent to the Committee of Public Accounts....