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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It will have to be tackled. We must move on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That could be a recommendation of the committee as part of our work this autumn, for example, when people make submissions for tenders, they should note that the information can be accessed under freedom of information legislation. Everybody-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We may make a recommendation to the effect that, if anyone tenders for any public job, this note about information will be stated on the tender document. If people do not want their names published, they should not apply for the job.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have various ways of approaching this. We have exercised our minds on the matter. We will travel the road to ensure safe passage to the far end in the interests of public accountability for public funds.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will put it this way – I take Deputy Connolly’s point completely. In this day and age, it is probably not politically correct to say what one believes. I am one of those people who, even if it verges a little further than some people would like-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I take the Deputy’s point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have a road to travel.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I take on board Deputy Connolly’s point. We have a road to travel on this matter. Next is No. 2482 from Dr. Deirdre Keyes, chief executive of the Kildare and Wicklow ETB, providing information requested by the committee regarding non-compliant procurement of €1.8 million as set out in the 2016 audit accounts. We will note and publish that, as we are doing a body of work....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is useful information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Fine. We will hold this over because we will shortly be making a comprehensive compilation on this issue. Next is No. 2483 from Mr. David Gunning, chief officer of the National Paediatric Development Hospital Board, dated 18 October, in respect of our request for an update on project costs of the new children’s hospital. We will not have a long discussion on this issue now, since the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: There is effectively a system of double recording. There are two independent methods of recording the cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: There is the published approved contract under which everything was to come in, but there is a separate list of exceptions for items not in the approved tender. This is where the overruns will be. The letter states that they cannot be priced at this stage or how long doing so will take. It is an extraordinary admission that there are a whole lot of items outside the general contract that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will try to be brief because we will be coming back to this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will note and publish it and, as I have said, the NPDHB will come before the committee in a couple of weeks. No. 2484 B is directly related so we will not have a extensive discussion on it. It is from Ms Eilish Hardiman, chief executive of Children's Health Ireland, CHI, and is dated 17 October 2019. It is in response to our request for information relating to each consultancy project...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: This came from City of Dublin Education and Training Board. It is the public body that processes the applications on behalf of SUSI. This rule probably comes from the Department of Education and Skills. We need to write to the Accounting Officer of the Department for his comments in light of what has been said here and try to find a better way of assisting people who should be entitled to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Department. Has SUSI its own board? Is it a separate organisation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Administration.