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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I specifically said in my question to the Secretary General that the issue of non-tendering is not necessarily associated with a loss. I was not going to raise it because I accept the report and see the valid reason for it. Is it possible for Mr. Robert Watt to send us a note summarising, for the years 2011 and 2012, where there was a loss of income and a waste of taxpayers' money? In a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: No. Mr. Watt is here to answer questions, not to ask them. I am not being smart about that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I will ask the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform first and ask the Comptroller and Auditor General separately. We have plenty of opportunities to do that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I still have a few points to raise on Vote 12. I smile wryly when I look at one or two of Mr. Watt’s opening comments. I am addressing only one or two comments from his long statement. He talks about better budgeting and refers to it on page 3. He states he has enhanced the amount of output information provided in the annual Estimates for the Dáil. One page 14, he states...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. Watt and his colleagues. He has given a broad-ranging summary of the activities of his Department, which was set up approximately two years ago. I want to deal with some of the financial side of it. I will start with Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting, the overall Vote for the entire Government. I have a few topics but I will deal with this one first. Gross voted expenditure in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 2011.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I wish to comment. This issue has been ongoing for some time. On the work programme there is publicity about Bord na gCon, which is due to come before the committee. Horse Racing Ireland and Bord na gCon get funding. In the article Mr. Treacy supplied to us from The Irish Field, there are allegations that €750,000 was lost due to a cost savings plan delay. The journalist who wrote...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Ratings (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts being made to secure a revision of Ireland’s credit rating with bond rating agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41456/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Redeployment (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding Government Departments that have staff numbers in excess of their employment control framework staffing numbers and where staff in these Departments apply for redeployment to another Department and are not being released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41621/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 134. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if payment of jobseeker's allowance will be reviewed and increased in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41623/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Shared Services (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 161. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the situation where shared service programmes are being located to individual local authorities and where staff in other local authorities wish to transfer to the new shared service project in cases where it is nearer where they live; the structure and arrangements in place whereby staff can transfer...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 163. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress to date on the roll out targets for the housing assistance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41655/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Ownership (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding unregistered land in what was originally the Digby Estate, Barrownageeshal, County Offaly, part of which is in Gurteen, part of which is in Killurin; the persons that are current trustees in relation to this unregistered land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41625/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 204. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a forestry payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41652/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the number of farmers in receipt of the single farm payment on a county basis where the payment per hectare is based in the following ranges under €100, between €100 and €200, between €200 and €300, between €300 and €400, between €400 and...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: Is it not standard practice to recognise the service of a person moving from one public body to another?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I will discuss them with the Minister's officials at the end of the meeting.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: In looking at public service bodies, we have been talking about An Garda Síochána, local authorities, the HSE and education committees. Most of those can appoint their own chief executive officers. They do not have to go through TLAC, so why would the Oireachtas, which is a separate body, have to do so?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: Can that appointment be filled pending the legislation?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I might raise this matter on Report Stage.