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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will reply and request details of the specific issues we have highlighted. No. 2527 is correspondence from the clerk to the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, acknowledging correspondence we sent to the committee. We will note and publish the correspondence. No. 2528 is correspondence from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General of the Department of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will say that in my reply. There were some cases but we are clear that the problem is not with staff. Perhaps the schools are doing something else. There have been 88 complaints and most of them were uncovered by the Department. While some were not, it is systematically reviewing them. We will note and publish the correspondence, and reply to the person who wrote to us. No. 2529 is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will do that but, as the Deputy may have noticed, 80% of what happened was in Portlaoise. He might understand, therefore, why the question came from me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will return to the matter and bring it to Deputy Connolly's attention.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The final property to be transferred was Moate national school, for which €650,000 was received from the Sisters of Mercy. In each case, ownership and title issues arose, and it was a requirement of the indemnity agreement that the property transfer with good market value for each title. There are issues with trusts in those cases. I am told that in some cases the orders had to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It does. When I was reading the letter from the NTA, I knew I had read that other correspondence but it was further down the list. I was speaking from recollection. No. 2532B is from Ms Rachel Downes, CEO of Caranua. She provides a lot of information. We will note and publish it but we will hold it over.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for a note, but Caranua made it clear that it expects to have €2 million or €3 million extra at the end of its work that would allow it to reopen some of the old cases. A deadline for closing off cases was introduced. Some cases arrived after the deadline and they were not taken into account. Based on the average payments made to date, Caranua knows that if it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Could Deputy Catherine Murphy say that again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask the Deputy to pass on the parliamentary question to the secretariat and we will write to the Accounting Officer, who was here only last week. To keep the record straight, we will give the transcript of what was said and the reply to the parliamentary question and ask for a response. We will do that. I thank the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That matter was discussed here at a meeting recently. In essence, we were told the Local Government Fund was going to be reduced-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not have the transcript in front of me, but I understood that would be replaced by Irish Water paying commercial rates to the various local authorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will need to write to the Secretary General of the Department for clarification.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am sure the Deputy has parliamentary questions about this. It was discussed here and the Deputy raised it here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for the current position rather than the monitoring role and for up-to-date information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We can. Is it the baseline review for the Department funding for local government, the bloc grant or whatever they call it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is not a bloc grant. That was the wrong term.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is it the requirement for each local authority?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Both of those items have been discussed here before. We are going to follow up on both of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: In the current report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will point to that. It will probably be January.