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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: When we get the information back, we will take it up with the respective operators.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to them. We did not ask about the income from advertising on the various bus shelters and who gets it. We will ask the question. We were shocked to discover at a meeting last week that the majority of the staff in the NTA are outsourced and on contract. We have never met a State organisation where the majority of the day-to-day staff are not direct employees. The NTA has a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: This is an organisation that is in existence for ten years. We got shocked at that and we asked for a breakdown. This is what I am shocked at. On page 20 of this letter, it states the current employee headcount is 118, which costs €8.7 million. That is an average of €73,728 per employee. That includes PRSI, superannuation and everything that might go with that. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: What page are you on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is the strategic resource plan 2019 to 2020, which was only completed this summer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: So, it has been deteriorating.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is outrageous
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Our job is to look after taxpayers’ money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: They are doing day-to-day work. It is not specialised.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: A number of them are but a number of them are there on a day-to-day ongoing basis. It is not bringing in a consultant for a project for three months. These are here for the whole time. As the Deputy said, the NTA’s own strategic plan indicates that the figure is getting more serious. Our point is made for today and we will come back to this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We actually did and I should have said we have the reply. It is No. 2531B. I should have linked this to the other remark earlier. We wrote to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport because we were so shocked that day. We have the reply back from it, No. 2531B, dated 6 November 2019. It actually states under progress in implementation that in December 2018, the NTA received...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of what we have just discussed and provide the transcript. The implications should jump out at the Department. It should not talk about phases, grades or whatever. Its efforts to correct the circumstances have been paltry. I could accept it if it were years one, two or three, but not in year ten. No. 2524 is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The letter states, "For the vast majority of HSE staff, the only change experienced will be the introduction of the self-service tool". That means employees will download their own payslips, which is fine for salaried employees and so on. However, the letter continues:For a smaller cohort of staff (specifically those involved in capturing staff hours worked, payroll and staff records...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is correct.
- 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.