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Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It was extra cash in lieu of property but was not part of Caranua's funding. I ask the Department in its next report to include a note on the cash taken in lieu of property just to complete the circle. They probably dropped off the list because they went for cash but we would like to complete the picture. I wish the Department the very best in completing that work. It will be good to get...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am sharing time with Deputy Haughey.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget that was announced here last week. People throughout the country are beginning to ask questions. They fully understand the budget was framed on the basis of a no-deal Brexit and that it was correct to take a prudent line in the event that it might happen. However, in the event that we do have a deal this week, next week or whenever in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (16 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance the VAT rate charged on food supplements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42482/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal by a school (details supplied) will be examined in respect of the possible suppression of a teaching post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42357/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (15 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 559. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a capital grant will be approved for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42153/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (15 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: 560. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a capital grant will be approved for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42154/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. He is joined by Mr. John Crean, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Catherine Connolly. Are the minutes of 26 September and 3 October agreed? Agreed. One matter arises from those minutes and I will deal with it as part of the work...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Committee of Public Accounts has performed a useful service here today by putting this information into the public arena. We are all hearing that the banks are having to raise funds at a negative interest rate or at 1% or 2%, and with the gross national debt in the region of €200 billion some people might think it is only costing €2 billion or €3 billion to pay it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is not information that is normally published but it gives a fuller and more accurate picture of the interest charged on the national debt and this committee will put that information out there today, having received it from the NTMA following specific queries from the committee. It is good to put that out there. It will take quite a while for some of that older debt to work its way...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is an issue we come back to every year. Perhaps some people find it the boring part of our business, but when there is €5 billion going out of the Exchequer every year it is still a big chunk of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. We will note and publish that useful information. No. 2417 from Mr. Brendan Gleeson, Secretary General, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, provides information requested by the committee regarding the oversight arrangements for funding to Horse Sport Ireland. We has asked for this information but through some minor administrative hiccup the correspondence has only...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine give the funding to Horse Sport Ireland and to Bord na gCon.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: They are on the schedule for 24 October, so they will be coming very soon. A chapter of the report from the Comptroller and Auditor General is about forestry, but what Deputy Munster has referred to will also form part of our meeting in two weeks time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy referring to Horse Racing Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The committee will write to Horse Sport Ireland and ask about the Indecon report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. We will put the officials from the Department on notice that the matter will be discussed when they are here in two weeks' time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: No. 2419 is correspondence from Mr. Maurice Buckley, chairman, Office of Public Works, OPW, providing further information requested by the committee in respect of the Kevin Street Garda divisional headquarters project. Negotiations between the OPW and the contractor have been referred by the contractor for conciliation. The letter states that it is not possible at this stage to provide the...