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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (9 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will facilitate the transfer of parental leave to nurses who work in hospitals from their spouses who may work in other parts of the public service specifically An Garda Siochána to enable the HSE employee to take the parental leave and are there any rules preventing this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43446/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (9 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will facilitate the transfer of parental leave to nurses who work in hospitals from their spouses who may work in other parts of the public service specifically An Garda Síochána so that the HSE employee can take the parental leave; if there are rules preventing this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43470/12]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: In respect of the details of the invoice for the Bell Airways flight from Waterford to Dublin, I assume the return flight was empty. I suspect the flight from Filton involved an aircraft that was sourced in England. I do not imagine Bell sent an aircraft to Filton to fly to Dublin. As Bell Airways is part of a much larger group, it may not have operated the aircraft itself. The company...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Are they under Mr. Boland's remit?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Under whose remit?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Is it a subsidiary body?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Very well. Can Mr. Boland give me an assurance that all the foreign travel to which I have referred is proper and correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Boland might send members a breakdown of how many staff were involved or whatever. I refer to what members have encountered in other organisations. While I do not suggest there is a problem and take absolutely Mr. Boland's assurance that it is fully accountable, valid and properly authorised at face value, he might forward a note to the committee. I have a minor question in respect of...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Yes, I have been looking at it. It appears on page 23.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Boland is referring to tomorrow's report.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to note there is someone on the board - I will not attempt to pronounce the name - from the United Kingdom, someone from Queen's University Belfast and someone else from Amsterdam. I can understand that Professor Marijk van der Wende would incur higher travel expenses to get here. It does not seem excessive in the context of people travelling from the United Kingdom and Belfast...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Yes, it seems quite modest.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: It would be easy to make a song and dance today out of the €160,000 paid out between expenses and fees. However, when one considers the distances from which some of those concerned are coming, it is quite understandable. I acknowledge some people would suggest they should do it for nothing but people must be paid if they take days to come to meetings. Consequently, the sum of...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: There was never a suggestion from this side that there was anything untoward. The HEA has annual accounts and there are internal financial controls on page one. I would have expected the Department to have internal financial control mechanisms in place. I am pleased the system is in place now but I am surprised to hear it has not always been in place. I had a quick glance at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: It is unfortunate that we are meeting the HEA today for its yearly visit and the annual report is due out tomorrow. It would have been useful if we could have been given a draft of the report a day or two ago even though it will not be published until tomorrow. The same issue arose with the National Asset Management Agency earlier in the summer. It attended a meeting and its annual...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: It is better than translating it into German.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I wish to raise one issue on the cash flow situation from the HEA to the various third level institutes. I accept it is only a small part of it, but up to now the local authorities have paid student support grants to third level institutes. Now, we have this new organisation that we all know as SUSI – Student Universal Support Ireland. I have been dealing with it on behalf of...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The issue of subsidiaries is in the report. Many of them are audited. Through the delegates or the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, can a full list of subsidiaries, a list of every one of the third level institutions, be sent to us along with the last dates of audit? I do not know whether subsidiaries are audited by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General or whether...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Are they all included?