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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Deputy. We will send a transcript of this discussion to the Department with a covering letter in order to ensure it is familiar with the issues members have raised. We will note this item of correspondence and we will contact the Department directly on it. Next is No. 2445, from Deputy Kate O'Connell, who is requesting further information from Bord na gCon regarding the post...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Okay. We will do that. It is agreed that we will ask for a detailed response. The final item today is No. 2446, dated 10 October, from Deputy David Cullinane, who is requesting further information from the National Transport Authority. We sent a detailed list to the authority arising from last week's meeting. The Deputy has a few other issues he wants to raise. Is it agreed that those...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We probably will not sit if the Houses are not sitting, in which case we will have to postpone that meeting. It is up to members but if it is a sitting week, we should schedule a meeting. If it is not a sitting week, the members can decide-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I do not know. Of course, it could make a decision and then be forced to change it, depending on events. The point is well made and there is a question mark over that meeting because we are not quite sure what will happen. If the Dáil is not sitting, will we take it that this committee will not sit? If the Dáil is sitting that week, we will proceed with the meeting. Is that agreed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: I do not think people will come up if the Dáil is not sitting. We understand where we are on that and the difficulty will be rescheduling. The next item is a meeting with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection followed by a meeting the following week with the Office of Public Works, OPW. There are chapters in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on both....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We want that organisation here that week because there is activity going on, outside of construction, which is under its remit. I refer here to getting patient records systems in place and so on. Children's Health Ireland commenced functioning on 1 January this year but work was being done on that project prior to that. That body has not been before this committee yet but it is a...

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.