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Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General might send us a note, in plain English, on the difference between the general government debt and the national debt.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: A list was circulated last night.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: We can easily handle this matter. We dealt with the land aggregation report previously. If there is none available in advance of the Secretary General appearing before us, we will have a detailed report and update sent to us and we will let the Secretary General know that it will be a specific issue for discussion. Someone is smiling at me, so I will say no more.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Who audits the Comptroller and Auditor General's office?

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: The organisations audited by the Mr. McCarthy are large and many conduct a number of internal audit reports during the year. What is his relationship with them in this regard? Does he examine these reports? Does he consider them to be part of his work in coming to an overall conclusion?

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy for his presentation and for his replies to our questions. If any member or group of members wish to have a further discussion with his office, they should contact the secretariat and that can be arranged. The committee continues from Dáil to Dáil and, therefore, there is a carryover of work from the previous Dáil. It does not have to re-established....

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: On foot of the Deputy's comments, I will write directly to the Secretary General requesting that reports are furnished to us as soon as they are ready because they may not necessarily come to us unless we follow it up. In terms of all of the reports, there is quite a bit in them and I have not had a detailed chance to review them. I propose that we hold them over until next week's meeting...

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes, an observation.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: A reply has been received and we will note the reply. The next items of correspondence are Nos. 2C, 10C and 16C. They are letters from Ms Anne Marie Caulfield, Private Residential Tenancies Board, enclosing copies of the correspondence between the PRTB and a private individual which was sent to us. It is an issue that we followed up before. The board has completed the circle and told us...

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy asking us to forward this correspondence to Mr. Fannin?

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: He may or may not agree with the contents.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will say we note there are ongoing proceedings against the Minister and the Garda Commissioner and, as a result, we can only note the correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes, we will give him an explanation.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes, it is a courtesy issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Deputy. No. 14C relates to the adequacy of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's response to the recommendation of the committee's report on the wards of court. As this relates to the minutes already discussed, I propose that we discuss the correspondence with the wards of court report separately next week. No. 15C is a letter from Mr. Alan Farrell calling on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will do it page-by-page on the screen and members may make comments. I will not call them out. On screen 1, we start with the Citizens Information Board, clear audit opinion. Some of them are new agencies and some of them have merged with other organisations in the meantime. Are we happy to note that page 1, up to 4.13? I invite the Comptroller and Auditor General to make comments if...

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to clarify. We raised that a moment ago.