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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: The only item on the work programme on which I want to touch is our meeting with the HSE scheduled for 5 December. We dealt with its annual financial statements before the summer. Officials are coming in to discuss the primary care centre chapters in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. We have given the HSE a list of other items we want to discuss when its representatives...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I do not believe we should duplicate that work. Can we agree to let the Joint Committee on Health deal with the issue of CervicalCheck?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Fine. We have enough other issues. CervicalCheck will be dealt with by the Joint Committee on Health. Members understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes, absolutely. All of those sessions will still go ahead.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We can. I had a conversation yesterday in preparation for today's meeting. It was suggested that we could start January's meetings with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and lead with that specific issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss it next week, but I also suggested a meeting with the Department of Education and Skills. We have done a lot of work on third level, the education and training boards, institutes of technology, and universities but I want to examine first and second level education, including the issue of capital grants for construction projects.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: They will be the first two meetings. We will try to lay out four or five meetings next week but they are the first two to jump out.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: There are no other items to discuss at this stage. We will suspend for ten minutes and then start our session with the Charities Regulatory Authority.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are meeting representatives of the Charities Regulatory Authority, CRA, regarding its financial statements for 2018. We are joined by Ms Helen Martin, chief executive officer; Mr. Niall Scanlon, finance manager; and Mr. Eamon O'Halloran, head of registration and projects. We are also joined by Ms Ciara Bates, principal officer, and Mr. Kevin Power, assistant principal officer in the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General. I ask Ms Martin to make her opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Thank you. Today, we have two sessions and we will have one lead speaker for each session, one this morning and one this afternoon, if that is agreeable. The lead speaker this morning is Deputy Kelly.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Deputy Kelly. The next speaker is Deputy Cullinane.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Thank you. The next speaker is Deputy Connolly.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Scanlon can send a note to the committee about the details.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: The next speaker is Deputy Catherine Murphy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Marc MacSharry, who is the next speaker.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Before we move on, I want to take up an earlier point about the board of directors. I ask Ms Martin to go through the membership of the current board, indicating when each member was appointed and the mechanism under which the appointment was made. We will start with the chairman, Mr. Patrick Hopkins.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have the regulator's report here, which lists appointment dates for some members but there are gaps. The information is provided for some but not for others. I ask Ms. Martin to tell us what she can about each member and any missing details can be provided later.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: When was he appointed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: He was reappointed on 16 October 2018, according to the annual report. Was he reappointed through the Public Appointments Service, PAS? Who makes the appointments? Is it the Minister?