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- 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...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The OPW is scheduled to appear before the committee. It is on our list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I know people will think I am critical but every year we have a couple of issues in respect of the OPW. I know it does great work but in terms of getting the figures and budgets right, we have had several issues. I refer to the Department of Health moving to Miesian Plaza and several other issues. Here we go again. I am not criticising the quality of the OPW's work but it does not seem to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: In fairness, it is a city centre site and one just does not know what one is going to meet in the ground.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We understand that it is a difficult site.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The OPW is scheduled to come in and it is in here every year. We will specifically deal with this matter at that time. We note and publish that letter. No. 2427is from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, providing a response to our request for further information regarding the public services card. We requested the following information: a list...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write back to Mr. Watt and ask him to provide the information. His Department is over the public service in general. If he has to consult other Departments and Secretaries General in order to obtain the full information, so be it. We want him to supply that information to us. We have asked a simple question. Many organisations are using it. We have not got the answer. We need...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write again to Mr. Watt to seek the specific details we sought in the last letter and request him to consult whoever he feels appropriate to obtain the information for us. We will also ask the secretariat to contact the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection with regard to correspondence item No. 2441. The next item is No. 2442, correspondence from Mr. John McKeon,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: When a person presents a public services card at a swipe point, whether on a bus or train, the card chip contains a number with no name or address attached. The transport company can pass the information through the NTA back to the Department that the following numbers have made the following trips. The Department then knows the usage rate on the free travel card. Only the Department has...