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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask SUSI what alternatives it has. I know how the problem has arisen.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will clarify that with SUSI. Correspondence No. 2571 B is from Mr. Maurice Buckley, chairman of the Office of Public Works, providing a further update requested by the committee on discussions between the OPW and the landlord of Miesian Plaza. There was a meeting in October and the OPW is following up some matters. I propose we request a further update of matters not yet concluded....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: To which item is the Deputy referring? We are dealing with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Can we agree to send that letter to the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform and ask them to consider it and respond to us?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will write to the Accounting Officer directly on that basis and seek full information and clarification on that point. I am proposing to hold over category C - correspondence from private individuals to next week's meeting. I will return to No. 2581 B from Mr. Peter Finnegan, Secretary General, Houses of the Oireachtas Service, which incorporates No. 2575 B and 2578 B.No. 2581 B is the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have given that. The VAT exclusive works of the OPW were approximately-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: For clarification, the cost of the printing equipment was €1.369 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: The proposed account for the works to be carried out was €229,000 plus VAT at 13.5 % because it is construction, which brings that up to €260,000. That brings the cost, excluding the works on the ventilation system, to €1.629 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will take Deputy MacSharry's comments now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I think it might span three years. The cheque was written in 2018, the works were done in 2019 and, as we speak at the end of 2019, the machine is not yet in operation. It may well be 2020 before it is in operation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Let the Deputy continue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Deputy MacSharry has made his point. He should let Deputy Connolly continue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is not mentioned.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: The private sector is not within the purview of the Committee of Public Accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are finished with this debate.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: It was €20 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I wish to bring the matter to a conclusion. It is clear we need to send a transcript of this session to the Clerk of the Dáil. The points made will be well enumerated in the transcript and will enable him to respond. We should write directly to the OPW regarding its role, tendering process and advice, as well as clarifying when it became involved. Reference was made to the issue of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Members will appreciate that the introductory remarks to witnesses, which I introduced, ask for candour in all cases. I do not know whether the Chair of any other committee makes such a request. Witnesses are encouraged to volunteer information and give us the full picture. We deal with organisations such as the HSE and the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection which turn...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: This morning we are joined from the Revenue Commissioners by Mr Niall Cody, chairperson, Ms Kathleen Redmond, principal officer, Padraigh Donnelly, assistant principal, and Angela O'Gorman, principal officer. We are also joined this morning from the Department of Finance by Ms Deirdre Donaghy, principal officer, who may have to leave early in the course of the meeting to go to the Seanad,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Cody. The first member to indicate was Deputy Burke, who will have 20 minutes. After him will be Deputy Connolly with 15 minutes. Members have indicated in the following sequence: Deputies Cullinane, Murphy, MacSharry, Cassells and O'Connell. We are also joined by two officials from the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in respect of film relief. If any member...