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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is not ring-fenced but is in with general taxation. It is not like the environment levy, which goes into the environment fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not have an issue with it going inper sebut if €400 million in carbon tax goes in this year, I would like to see projects across various Department, adding up to €400 million, that are related to carbon emissions reduction.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: No, what happened in this year's budget-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. We will not get into the politics of this but what was achieved in the budget is that there will be transparency vis-à-visthe extra €90 million that will be raised in carbon tax this year. What I, as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, want to know, is how the other €400 million-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes I used that word. I am not mentioning how it was achieved but it was achieved. We have transparency on the increase in the carbon tax but nobody mentioned the bigger issue which is that we are already collecting €400 million in carbon tax every year. Let us see how the funds already collected and those being collected are spent. We have opened the door but this committee will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Revenue Commissioners will have to come before us soon because there have been big issues around debt write offs by Revenue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it will appear before that committee shortly. We will not set a date for our meeting with Sport Ireland until after the aforementioned joint committee meeting because we do not want to duplicate work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I suggest we wait until after that committee has its meeting and then we can decide on a date, if appropriate, for us to invite Sport Ireland to appear before us. I do not want to jump on the work that is currently being done by the other committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: In terms of outstanding matters, we have NAMA, Enterprise Ireland and the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland. The HSE will be coming before us, as will the board of the paediatric hospital. Sport Ireland is an organisation that has been mentioned quite a lot here but we do not have a date for a meeting yet. We will try to get a date, preferably on a Thursday. We may find that one of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are meeting with Caranua about its financial statements for 2017. We are joined by Ms Rachel Downes, chief executive officer of Caranua. She is very welcome to this first meeting in her role as chief executive officer. We are also joined by Mr. David O'Callaghan, chairperson, Ms Sinéad Dwyer, director of services, and Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick, director of finance and corporate...
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I thank Ms Downes. The speakers have indicated in the following sequence. The first speaker will be Deputy Connolly. She will have 20 minutes. The second will be Deputy Munster and she will have 15. The other speakers, Deputies Cullinane, Catherine Murphy, MacSharry and O'Connell, will have ten minutes each.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is from 2016.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I would suggest someone here might look up the financial statements on the Caranua website now. That question can be answered in five minutes. Is there a staff member who can do that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: That can happen now in a few short minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We might verify that with a note in due course.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: What is the average payment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: What are the lowest and the highest payments?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Does that require legislation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: How long does that take? That is another issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It has nothing to do with Mr. O'Callaghan.