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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: Sorry now, but I think the Secretary General is looking to-----

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: Does Ms Stack know where I got the figures from?

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 ask Ms Stack to send it to us-----

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: -----so I can circulate it. There is no point in just telling me. I want to be able to circulate it. As I have just said, it is better that we have a proper record circulated to everyone and then the letter is published.

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: Does the Department have an update on that taking into account what we have just spoken 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: At this stage we have exhausted all the questions. I thank the officials from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, and the official from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform who got off light today. They had no questions today. I regularly compliment the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and some other Departments for providing good...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding persons who take up positions in the public service, if previous similar work can be taken into consideration in terms of their starting points on the scale (details supplied); if this applies across each Department and local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45899/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal in respect of a suppression of a teaching post by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45978/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 163. To ask the Minister for Health when additional home help hours will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45977/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the national broadband plan; when the maps that are being re-examined for the intervention area will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46006/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hedge Cutting Season (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 222. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the period of time during which it is permitted to cut hedges and ditches here; the position regarding the levy of fines that can be imposed in circumstances in which landowners do not cut their hedges that can cause difficulty for road users; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45926/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Which industries are low?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: For people watching, will Mr. Brady explain that word, NACE?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is that dealt with in these reports?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Brady send a link to that to our secretariat, please?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: One way a country could improve a situation is to engineer over a period of time what it does or produces into sectors that have lower carbon emissions. That is a big ask. It is a long-term strategy. Governments have strategies for long terms, over years and decades. If we were to move into some of those industries, it might be a better way of dealing with this particular issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Morrin to send on the link. Those were the type of points I wanted to raise. We wanted to talk about this issue and we will be talking to the Department, which is the Accounting Officer to this committee. We wanted to get some hard information from the witnesses in terms of the report that they produced so that we are not just talking to the Department on a general basis. There...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Does any country have a policy whereby the subsidies given do not prove damaging to the environment? Is there any country at which we can look in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes, we have some of them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: What is the balance in Ireland at a macro level in terms of buildings, what is used and environmentally positive measures? I refer to making it cheaper to buy diesel, for example, which is more damaging, raising money, understandably, for other social and economic reasons. I wish to look at the issue solely from the point of view of the environment in order that we look at where some of the...