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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: With regard to foreign travel by staff, Mr. Boland said he has approximately 58 staff. I do not necessarily expect him to have all the detail to hand. On note 5 on page 12 of the annual accounts, a figure for foreign travel of €59,185 is listed. On page 13, a sum of €5,645 is mentioned regarding foreign travel in respect of the IRCHSS. Mr. Boland might tell the public what...

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: We have spent an hour or more talking about the Waterford-Dublin return flight on 31 March 2007, and also the UK-Dublin return flight. We need further details.

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 Bell Airways invoice refers to a Waterford-Dublin return flight on 20 March 2007.

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 written on the invoice. That is what I am going by. It says "return". The invoice for the UK flight refers to the hiring of the pilot and to a return flight. Therefore, there were two return flights.

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 have no idea. Perhaps we should move on to something else. My first question is for Mr. Ó Foghlú and Mr. Boland. In February of this year, there was a new memorandum of understanding between the Department of Education and Skills and the Higher Education Authority. Why was there a new one? Was there one previously? If so, what is the difference between the two? Is this...

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 a new agreement.

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 find it extraordinary that, while almost €1.2 billion in taxpayers' money goes straight from the Department to the Higher Education Authority, there was no formal written memorandum of understanding between the two organisations. Some of the issues pertaining to the third level colleges arose in the 2010 audit. Consider the position in which we found ourselves early this year....

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 have no problem with any of that. Mr. Ó Foghlú has highlighted to me what I regard to be across-the-board issues, not specific ones. The audited accounts refer to a figure of €1.2 billion in Government funding for 2011. The figure was the same the year before. A formal memorandum of understanding was not in place between the Department and the HSE. Can Mr. Ó...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: During the summer somebody sent me a set of the audited school transport accounts and a separate set of financial statements. They were audited independently by one of the main firms. There is information available. I think it is an EU requirement. I am sure it is not being used to subsidise Bus Éireann's other activities. I am not saying I agree with anything in it or that I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I have three small points to make. Deputy Donohoe touched on the point that the representatives of Garda members and Defence Forces personnel are not covered by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and consequently must appear separately. Second, I believe the committee should meet in the week the Dáil is not scheduled to sit because I believe members must finish their work considerably...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: All I wanted to suggest was that this could be taken into account.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: It should be considered.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: May I come in on this correspondence? This committee has received a lot of correspondence on this issue and I note that, in one letter recently received, the correspondent expresses the belief this committee's handling of the correspondent's case should be investigated by the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation, as the correspondent considers the committee has gone out of its way to cover up...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: Will the rapporteur be a member of the committee or an external party?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Job Creation Issues (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the success to date of plans announced in July 2011 to create an additional net 10,000 new jobs in the Irish Financial Service Centre; the progress made on promoting Islamic Finance products and the Green IFSC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42300/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out in tabular form the starting salary grade for a newly employed Administrative Officer in the Civil Service for each year from 2005 to 2012; the available allowances to a newly employed Administrative Officer in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42523/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (3 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the report in relation to the future of Abbeyleix District Hospital, St Brigid’s Hospital Shaen, Portlaoise and other community nursing homes in the midlands region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42335/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (3 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will expedite the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42350/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research Funding (2 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason Ireland performed so poorly in securing funding for science research projects from the European Research Council which recently awarded €800 million to 503 applicants of which only four were Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41658/12]