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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We might discuss it in private session in a moment but, at the beginning of this Oireachtas year, as Chairman, I went through it with the secretariat and, other than myself, we listed all the 12 members in strict order and then moved on to-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes, and to make sure there was no speaker and second speaker from the same party on the same day. The problem arises when people pull out, and I am not quite sure of the position in that regard.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss it in private session to get an agreement on it. The way it worked in the previous committee-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: No. If a person said on the Tuesday that he or she would not be available for the Thursday, the secretariat would ask somebody else on the committee to do a swap. That meant they lost the slot they had the next month by taking the slot on the Thursday. The question is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: A day's notice.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss it in private session in a minute. I know who attends and does not attend meetings. If we check the record over decades, Government Deputies may not always have been the best attenders at meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts, possibly because they are taking on their own Ministers' line Departments week in and week out. Be that as it may, I felt it was appropriate...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will come to it in private session in a few minutes' time. The point is valid.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will do that. The sports capital programme was looked at by the last Committee of Public Accounts. The most interesting point made was that there was no sunset clause. I do not know if there is one now. The issue was that grants were approved, the officers of organisations changed and projects never proceeded. The Department had no mechanism in place for taking back money and it was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will write today to the Department for a detailed briefing document on the issues the Deputy has raised. We should be able to receive it within a reasonable period. We can then schedule the carrying out of further work.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Let us get the information first, given that there have been changes to the scheme. The work programme is the same as it was last week. We have representatives of the Courts Service scheduled to appear on 14 November. On 21 November we have representatives of the Charities Regulator before us. We have agreed to have representatives of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is agreed. If there are particular issues members want to raise at that meeting, they should contact the secretariat. The HSE witnesses will say they were here to discuss the annual financial statements and that if there are further specific issues the committee would like to raise, they want us to tell them what they are. It would be helpful if they were to be given advance notice in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: In the morning session we will have representatives of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, the Secretary General of the Department of Health and representatives of Children's Health Ireland and the HSE before us. In the separate second session we will discuss the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on primary care centres, to which Deputy Munster referred, and other...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss the financial statements of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, not the HSE. In the morning session we will discuss the national children's hospital, while in the afternoon we will discuss primary care services with the HSE, not the Department of Health, and other specific items we will raise with the HSE in the meantime. We had a general discussion on the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: This morning we will meet officials from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding the appropriation accounts 2018 for Vote 37 - Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, the 2018 Social Insurance Fund, and the following chapters from the annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: chapter 12 - regularity of social welfare payments, chapter...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: For clarification, Mr. McKeon said he had provided the committee, under separate cover, with some examples of cases where savings were realised due to the detection of fraud. They include photographs, so I will not circulate them today as to do so might set the wrong message. They will not be published but it might set the wrong tone to hand out photographs of people who were found to have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Can Mr. McKeon explain how the figure of €400,000 came about?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I did not like circulating photographs.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Deputy-----