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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will ask Ms Dixon to send us a note on that because those are the sort of matters that when they take off on Facebook, everybody blames GDPR. They say we have gone mad when we are down to such a situation. It stems from GDPR and perhaps it is not being implemented properly. When it is not implemented properly it can damage the good name of GDPR and what GDPR is trying to achieve. The...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: A lot of information is required because we have seen local authorities that are now getting the different levels of forms together for people to sign and that is all an improvement. It is a bedding-in process as well, so we understand there will be hiccups. It was useful and good to have the Data Protection Commission here. As one of the members said earlier, we have witnesses who come...

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate. Like every other Member, as a local public representative, I am keenly aware of the housing difficulties in every constituency. It differs depending on whether one is in an urban or rural area but there are problems everywhere. I have a particular interest in this legislation because up to early last year, the Minister and I...

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: So it was about soya lattes - very good. Was that not an excellent housing scheme and a perfect development strategically located at the centre of Portlaoise delivered by the local authority? We should continue to support local authorities. They feel as if they have been sidestepped. When I visit my local authority, as every Member can do, I find that all housing is being delivered by...

Finance (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for agreeing to share time with me. I acknowledge that this is important legislation. It deals with an issue that has been discussed at length at both the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach and the Committee of Public Accounts in the past year or two. We support the Bill, with which the Committee of Public Accounts...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (24 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be approved for the summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38273/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee, and he is joined by Ms Orla Duane, deputy director of audit. I would like to welcome the Comptroller and Auditor General and all the members back after what I hope was a good break. I also welcome a new member of the committee, Deputy Imelda Munster. We look forward to her...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will spend a couple of minutes on the work programme before we deal with Bord na gCon and accounts received and part of the work programme is next week's schedule. The first items of correspondence are category A correspondence, which are briefing documents and opening statements for today's meeting. Category B, which is Nos. 2387A and 2388A, dated 17 September, from Bord na gCon,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Not the opening statements but the correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I hope to, yes. For the benefit of people watching the meeting, the layout looks a bit different. There are extra items showing the names of people closer to where-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will work on that in the next couple of minutes-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: -----and we will see how we get on. No. 2389Adated 17 September 2019 from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is a briefing note for today's meeting on the financial position of Bord na gCon in 2018. Category B is correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow up to PAC meetings, and other items for publishing. The first item under this category is No....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is agreed, but the correspondence-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Of the-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I think he called it a communication. We will see the format of that and ask for a copy of it when it is received from the Department or the HEA. That is agreed. There is an issue that we want this dealt with across the public sector generally but the specific issue we highlighted was third level education, so we will stick to that rather than broaden it across every Department and State...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will publish it, and the Deputy is free to come back on it again.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I do not have to suggest that to the Deputy. That is agreed. Next is No. 2320B from Mr. Fergal Lynch, Secretary General, Department of Children and Youth Affairs, dated 11 July 2019, providing a further note as requested by the committee relating to our meeting on 19 June 2019. It includes details of funding family resource centres and childcare facilities under the national childcare...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask them if they can give the category in the next update. In earlier reports, there were some income tax or capital gains tax cases. All the big cases now are to do with corporation tax, certainly in the latest two reports we received, which says something in its own right, and the figures involved are massive. I suspect they must be multinationals of some description to be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Was it the interpretation of legislation?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I would say that most of them are.