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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (16 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: 1520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when full payment under the basic payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24938/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (16 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: 1521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the basic payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24941/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: 1672. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when an upgrade will take place in the broadband in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25024/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mining Industry (16 Sep 2016)

Seán Fleming: 1674. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding a new application to mine coal (details supplied); when this matter will be dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25124/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: The committee is in public session. We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. Apologies have been received from Deputies Josepha Madigan, Marc MacSharry and Alan Kelly. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meetings of 14 and 15 July 2016. Are those minutes agreed to?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Are there any matters arising specifically from the minutes? If not, we will move on to correspondence received.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: In the minutes of the meeting of 15 July 2016, there is a list of items that we requested in writing. We included in those minutes the follow-on information that we formally requested. The minutes of what we have requested constitute our control sheet. It is in the minutes, therefore. If the Deputy finds something we did not request but which she feels should have been sought, she should...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will note that. Category B is correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow-ups to meetings. That is correspondence Nos. 17B, 18B, 19B, 20B and 21B. We deferred these items from last week again to allow time for further consideration. These are minutes from the Minister; that is formal Department of Public Expenditure and Reform responses to reports produced by...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: None of those items is going off the agenda but we will hold them over until the next day. The next item of correspondence, No. 38B, was received from the HSE following last week's meeting regarding St. John of God. We will review this correspondence and look at in the overall context when we receive all the follow-ups from the last meeting. We can then write again to the HSE if we require...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: I support Deputy McDonald and will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General for a brief comment. Essentially, the issue boils down to this - many of the organisations that receive funding through section 38 and section 39 arrangements have other funding in their own right. All the funding seems to go into the one pot and it is then impossible to distinguish whether public funds went where...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: While we have an idea of the problem, we do not yet have a solution. We will hold over the issue. We are all agreed, however, that the committee cannot be expected to deal with the latest crisis every three months. That is no way to run a country. We will return to the issue when further information is received. No. 42B is correspondence received from the Office of the Comptroller and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: I will return to that matter. The National Development Finance Agency will be on the agenda of today's meeting because it is part of the National Treasury Management Agency. The next item is a briefing note on procurement in the HSE. When we meet representatives of the HSE to discuss its annual report we should refer to the sample showing the proportion of HSE procurement that did not go...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will put it in the work programme. In the meantime, we will write the letter and will get a specific response. The next item is category C, correspondence from or in relation to private individuals and any other correspondence. No. 34C is from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in reply to previous correspondence regarding funding from the Department to Stoneybatter Youth...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Thank you. You can bring it back then. The next item is No. 35C, a further item of correspondence from an individual, the origin of which relates to an alleged wrongdoing by Horse Racing Ireland. As I mentioned at our meeting two weeks ago, the individual has been in regular contact with the previous Committee of Public Accounts, several Departments, Deputies and gardaí over the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will write to Tusla and ask for a detailed note on the matter, and we will put Tusla on our work programme.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will put Tusla on the work programme. The next accounts are the Higher Education Authority, clear audit opinion; Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, clear audit opinion; Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, clear audit opinion; and Microfinance Ireland, clear audit opinion. Microfinance Ireland is a small organisation issuing micro loans. Next, the Housing and Sustainable Communities...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: The National debt, NTMA, Post Office savings funds, State Claims Agency, Dormant Accounts Fund, Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and the National Pensions Reserve Fund are all in the book, which is the subject of today's meeting. They all have a clear audit opinion and we will be able to discuss them at length with our witnesses when they arrive today. Regarding the work programme, we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Explain the process.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will write formally to the Minister asking him to lay the report in the Oireachtas Library when he receives it. That is the official way to proceed. The Houses of the Oireachtas do not have to be sitting for him to do so. We can ask that it be dealt with as early as possible. There have been occasions in the case of other reports when the Minister who has 90 days in which to do so has...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: That could mean it would not be made available until the end of October, which would be no good. We will ask the Minister to publish the report straightaway, explain to him that we have a meeting scheduled for 29 September and that we must have it in sufficient time in advance to allow us to conduct a productive meeting on that date and ask him to publish it much earlier, if possible. Is it...