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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: What do you expect the Commission to do with those maps? What significance do they have?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: If there are no further questions-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: You will submit that documentation to us and whatever guidance notes-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Can you assist and liaise with the clerk? Whether it is the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government or the OPW which sends it out, we would like to see it. Whether it is the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government or the OPW, we would like to see that guidance.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: This document might be of help to us here to make sure there is a bit of consistency across local authorities, because we do hear of different local authorities using those maps differently. Some of them take it as the bible and there is no negotiation after it. Other local authorities do it differently. At this stage, on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I thank all of the...

Regulation of Charities: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his election to the post. It is good to see him in the Chair this evening. I join my colleague Deputy Jim O’Callaghan in thanking the Social Democrats and the Green Party for tabling the motion. Everybody agrees with the sentiment of the motion and most people will be happy to support it. The motion has come before us because so many...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (12 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: 26. To ask the Minister for Health how Ireland’s expenditure on medicines compares to other European Union member states when considered as a share of overall health expenditure. [20976/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (12 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: 97. To ask the Minister for Health the savings he anticipates from the agreement with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association. [20975/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (12 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: 796. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a work permit will be awarded to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20756/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: We are now in public session. Apologies have been received from Deputy Marc MacSharry. I welcome members to the first meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts of the Thirty-second Dáil. I am pleased to have been selected as Chairman. I am committed to working with members to fulfil our remit. We will hold approximately 300 publicly funded organisations to account on how public...

Public Accounts Committee: Election of Vice Chairman (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: The first item on the agenda is the election of Vice Chairman. I ask for nominations for that position.

Public Accounts Committee: Election of Vice Chairman (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Are there any other nominees?

Public Accounts Committee: Election of Vice Chairman (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Are there any further nominations? As more than one nomination has been received I am required to deal with them in the order in which they were received and I will now put the following question: "That Deputy Alan Kelly be elected Vice Chairman of the committee."

Public Accounts Committee: Election of Vice Chairman (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: I welcome Deputy Alan Kelly as Vice Chairman. Before moving on to deal with correspondence received and many of the issues arising which members wish to discuss, I welcome the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who will join us for the rest of the meeting. He is accompanied by Mr. his parliamentary liaison officer, Mr. Billy Carrie.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, all witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. If they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and continue to do so, they are entitled thereafter only to qualified privilege in respect of their evidence. They are directed that only evidence connected with...

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy's points are noted. We will revert to a general discussion on the work of the committee, but I now ask Mr. McCarthy to give a general overview and explain to members his role, particularly vis-à-visthe committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: This is a learning experience and as meetings progress we will see how things work. Does anybody have a question? If so, I shall take them in order.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Normally, the legislation setting up a particular semi-State body specifies the auditor and if it is not the Comptroller and Auditor General then we cannot go near them. We try to work in co-operation with the Local Government Audit Service, where there is an area of responsibility that overlaps. For example, we are working on a review of the arrangements for motor tax collection, some of...

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: On that exact point, if a liability from local authorities falls back on the State balance sheet, as its debts are part of the national debt and Comptroller and Auditor General audits the National Treasury Management Agency which manages the national debt - the Comptroller and Auditor General sees where I am going with this question - is such a debt auditable at this committee? There might...

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General had better explain the difference between the national debt and the general government debt.