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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Are the figures mentioned by me the total amount? I think I mentioned five people. There might have eight or nine included in the scheme but I think payments were made to five people. Is that the full extent of the figures or are there more?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: The witnesses might send us a detailed note on the 29 people. I do not need employees' names but I would like to know the amounts and the timing regarding when they were paid. Have witnesses any idea of the total amount paid or payable under the scheme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: That is a lot of money. The bank is paying €500,000 to keep staff in a public service organisation. Did the people involved have to break their contracts and get new contracts? Were they deemed to be new employees or was it a mechanism of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: They were deemed to be new employees. Did they get a P60 and commence again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Will the witnesses send us a detailed note with information on that? It was referred to briefly here and that is where I picked it up. I have no problem forwarding a copy of the correspondence, with which they are familiar, and I will arrange with the clerk for its circulation for the benefit of other members. I thought other members had received it, but obviously it was only sent to me. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: We are now in public session and are moving on to our normal, routine items. Before we do that, however, I want to make people aware of the discussions we had in private on our work programme and specifically on our examination of the special report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on Project Eagle, the sale by NAMA of its Northern Ireland loan book. I wish to confirm that we will be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: We have no dates yet for any subsequent meetings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: No. Only once-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Frank Daly will be coming in first but I expect that before we complete our work, Mr. Daly will be back with us for a final session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the Minister because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: Yes, on the day he appears before the committee. I expect that the Minister would only attend once.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: It will be their first appearance-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: The committee will probably have to consider holding some meetings on Tuesdays because we have our normal work to do on Thursdays as well but we will come to the dates of the meetings in due course. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 21 July, 2016. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. The second item is matters arising out of those minutes not already covered in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: A copy of the letter from Ms Una Nagle, director of services at the facility, is also enclosed. Is it agreed that we send a copy of the correspondence to the individual who contacted us about the matter? Agreed. No. 58C is an e-mail from Deputy Josepha Madigan asking us to invite the Olympic Council of Ireland to appear before us in the light of the public funds it receives from the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: I do not know the answer to that question, but so much correspondence has been received on the matter that we will give the secretariat until next month to devise a response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: The matter has been with that committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: It has been with the Minister for Justice and Equality, An Garda Síochána, the Taoiseach, the European Commissioner, Irish MEPs - everywhere.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: If we are-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: The previous Committee of Public Accounts, of which I happened to be a member, asked questions of HRI. I do not have the exact facts. We wrote to HRI and received a response, but it was not satisfactory for the person who wrote this letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Seán Fleming: On that issue, is this committee in a position to write to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and ask him to answer?