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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: 502. To ask the Minister for Health when an MRI scan will be given to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28634/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: I may be unique in being a member of this committee when my party was in government. There must always be severe tension between the Government and this committee. The day it has a poodle in the top chair, the Government has won and the committee should close up shop. I was a member during the last Dáil and recall several occasions when a majority of the committee, both Opposition and...

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: I will put a question at the end, when I will ask whether you agree with what I am saying.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: They are directed at everybody who is listening. I want to be straight about that in order to develop a perspective. I think I am unique, with the possible exception of Deputy McGuinness, in serving previously as a Government backbencher and now as a member of the Opposition. There was always tension between Ministers and the committee. When Accounting Officers got a hard time from us,...

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: What is the normal procedure?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Vice Chairman is indicating.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: I respect that.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Vice Chairman and ask him to help me out here. With regard to the documentation we have received - we have 20 or 30 e-mails circulated in 2007 - is that the extent of what we received from the Department with the covering letter? The request to the Department was-----

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: This information just relates to the memos and does not give any information on costs.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: Is the Vice Chairman saying that some of the information received through the press was not obtained through a freedom of information request?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: Okay. I was a little confused when I saw the memos, because I have seen a lot in the press that is not included here.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: Thank you. The Chairman has confirmed a point I wished to raise and which Deputy Donohoe dealt with, namely, that although these memos concern the Chairman personally and individuals connected to him, he and they were not supplied with copies of the information until last Friday, despite the fact that some of these requests had been submitted some time ago and had been responded to before...

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: Were people other than the Chairman identified in the FOI releases?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: Were people other than the Chairman identified in the requests?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: The copy we received from the Department gives a schedule of officials by grade. All of their names are redacted, but their grades are included. I wonder why the Department would seek to identify some names but redact every other name.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: I am confused because I see some names redacted, but grades included while other names are made available. I do not understand why that is. There could be more freedom of information requests, whether about the Chairman or anyone on the committee for all we know. That is something we can never ask. Long may freedom of information requests be possible and people allowed make them. There...

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: Would the Chairman have any problem with this issue and the issue of spouses travelling and costs and guidelines being referred to the Standards in Public Office Commission?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is what I am saying. I do not mean the Chairman personally, but am referring to this issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: Is the Chairman referring to the Committee of Public Accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: I do not want to identify anybody not in this room or even any of those here. The Chairman has said that previous members of this committee when travelling on Committee of Public Accounts business brought their spouses along by agreement, but reimbursed the committee. Therefore, it has happened that spouses travelled, but the member subsequently reimbursed the committee the costs.