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- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: Commercial rates.
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: Without having to call witnesses in, can the Comptroller and Auditor General send us a note on the topic I raised-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: ----- and we will deal with it separately? I do not propose to call them in but I would like information on it anyway. That is good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: That is from when it was set up, from 31 October to the end of December.
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: Grand.
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General. We will move on to the next page. Are these available in the Oireachtas Library?
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: If anybody wants to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: They will be in the Oireachtas Library. Page 2 starts with the National Roads Authority, clear audit opinion. The last item on that page is the Economic and Social Research Institute, a clear audit opinion. Then there are issues there regarding deferred pensions. I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to explain that because it comes up regularly in public bodies. This is a regular...
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: Clear as mud. People get it. Regarding public sector bodies, if it was a private company, it would have to provide for a pension fund in its account. However, because it is a public sector body, some take the view that there will be funding from the State in due course to cover this and so do not provide for the full liability in its accounts because it knows the State, because of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: Insolvent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: We will move on to the next page. Normally we would only have a handful but there is six-months' stock here. The first one is the Adoption Authority of Ireland and the last one on that page is the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies. Can we move on? There is nothing-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: We will proceed to the next page. We will start with the environment fund, a clear audit opinion. This is something we might discuss with the Secretary General specifically when he comes in. Revenues from levies on plastic shopping bags and landfill of waste are paid into the fund, which supports the scheme for the purposes of prevention and reduction. We will not discuss it now but I am...
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: It is a case of getting down to the Land Commission at the end. We have the Land Commission's accounts for 2014 and then its accounts for 2013, 2012 and 2011. Mr. McCarthy might explain why we are only now getting the 2011 accounts for the Land Commission. I did not know they were still to be done. What is the issue with them being four years late?
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: Nearly four years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: Is there any way Mr. McCarthy could produce a list the bodies certified in respect of which the accounts have not been published?
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: That is good. The next page concerns rent tribunals. The same issue arises again, namely that of old accounts. We will move on again. On the next page, the credit union fund is the top item, along with the NAMA accounts. Is that the end of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: The first item on the next page is a special account for the purpose of the health repayment scheme, 2006. The last item is the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council. That is a different organisation we did not know about. We note those accounts and we will move on again. The next item is Aontacht Phobal Teorannta, and the last item is the HSE 2015 accounts. It goes without saying the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: Is Mr. McCarthy happy with that? Why has he a note on it? Does he agree or disagree with it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: Under the same legislation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Work Programme (7 Jul 2016)
Seán Fleming: Excellent.