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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: But it might not have written the rules.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is the Department the right body to write to, or both?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the City of Dublin Education and Training Board as well as the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I would be shocked if we let that through the House without addressing it. No. 2486 B is from Mr. Graham Doyle, head of communications, Data Protection Commission. It relates to various issues we raised at the committee. We will note and publish the cost of the investigation by the Data Protection Commission in regard to the public services card. We will be talking to the mother...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I looked at that. That is the name of the case - David Fox v. Data Protection Commission.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is their own staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will note and publish this. All these replies will feed into our next report. We may be here in the new year to deal with that. No. 2487 B is from Mr. Ray Mitchell of the Health Service Executive, providing information requested by the committee. There is quite a bit here. The HSE witnesses will be here in a couple of weeks so we will be able to interrogate them further on these...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: In regard to the PPP projects, we will ask for a detailed breakdown under all the various headings the Deputy mentioned so we will not be asking for the information on the day and getting it after Christmas. We will ask now to have it supplied to us in the briefing material in advance so we can examine it before the witnesses come in and discuss it in detail with them on a PPP project by PPP...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Lease arrangements, not PPPs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We need to list the agencies. The HSE has no problem publishing in its annual report a list running to dozens of pages of payments to these organisations. It publishes this information every year in its annual report so we are not asking-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Just in case people think we are being prurient, we are not looking for information on organisations for which the HSE does not publish global figures on an annual basis. It lists the organisations in its reports so there is no secret as to their identity. However, we need the information to be a bit more manageable because there are hundreds of organisations. Perhaps we should look for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We could have a list the size of a telephone directory otherwise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: What figure would the Deputy suggest?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Fine. That is agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Fine. I would be worried that we would get an unmanageable amount of data-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will seek information on the organisations in receipt of annual payments in excess of €250,000. That will cover all of the big ones.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Also in relation to each of those CHOs, people are approved for home help but are put on a waiting list. Patients are approved but the HSE does not have the money. We need to know how many have been approved and put on waiting lists in each of the regions. There are many such people out there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We all get letters from people who have been approved for home help but are on a waiting list until funding becomes available. We need that figure, broken down by CHO region too. The next item of correspondence, No. 2502, is from Mr. Ronan Murphy, the chief executive of Horse Sport Ireland, HSI, dated 23 October, providing a detailed response to a request for a timeline for the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Commissioner of Valuation is replying in his letter stating that there is confusion when people speak about his role. He is stating that people who have written to this committee do not take account of the distinction of the Commissioner of Valuation being independent in carrying out functions under the Valuation Acts and the entirely separate role as Accounting Officer in the context of...