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

Seán Fleming: From a financial point of view, we could ask for a breakdown of the cost in each of the CHO regions of the home care support services provided by healthcare support staff and the cost where they are provided by agencies. We will see if there is a disparity in the figures. Is the ratio 50:50 in one area and 90:10 in another? We will get details of the numbers of hours and costs as between...

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

Seán Fleming: Yes. The people concerned know what they are paying their own staff, whether by hour, week or year. The easiest way to manage the pay of home helps pay would be by hour, but we can work out what the figure of 1,000 hours comes to in weeks. The Department of Health is the biggest spending Department. The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection also has a big budget, but this...

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

Seán Fleming: We can.

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

Seán Fleming: During the course of the summer we received all of the correspondence received up to the end of July. We received batch 1 in the first week of August. We will have to defer consideration of the items we received in the past couple of weeks until next week. We will clear the correspondence received in the first half of the summer. Only a couple of items remains. No. 2235 is...

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

Seán Fleming: It will not be involved in that way. I take it the Deputy is referring to the case involving the Data Protection Commissioner. The State Claims Agency will only be involved in claims made against the State.

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

Seán Fleming: In the Department's Vote.

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

Seán Fleming: Yes.

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

Seán Fleming: They are included in the Vote of the Chief State Solicitor's office. We have had its representatives before us. The State Claims Agency is only involved in cases involving clinical imdemnity and public liability. All other things, fires, buildings, flooding, etc-----

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

Seán Fleming: Even in the cases where the SCA does the work, they have to reimburse the agency, as the HSE does every year. The State in taking the Apple case to Europe, for example, will not be covered by the agency. That will come out of the Vote of the Department of Finance. Is the Deputy with me? It is not a public liability case. For example, where the Department of Employment Affairs and Social...

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

Seán Fleming: Taken directly by the Department.

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

Seán Fleming: Coincidentally, as a result of the State Claims Agency's earlier visits, I asked the Department of Justice and Equality - I can share the PQs - all the agencies under the aegis of various Departments that had powers to take prosecutions, such as the EPA and the fisheries boards. I asked for the number of prosecutions taken by each of the agencies. The agencies all got back to me in letter...

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

Seán Fleming: That is an important point for another forum. I am sitting on information that nobody else has access to only because I asked the questions. The reply to parliamentary questions, PQs, should be put on the record.

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

Seán Fleming: That is another day's work but we would probably agree with that. Next is correspondence No. 2336 from Mr. Brendan Gleeson, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We asked him to give the committee a list of the property sites managed by the Department around the country and the number of Labour Court settlements involving former employees of Bord na gCon. That is on page 8....

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

Seán Fleming: Yes. Whiddy Island is probably our main terminal. We seem to have only 60 days' supply in the State. One is allowed have it in other countries.

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

Seán Fleming: I do not know. We will ask the agency why it has not it all here. That is the first question we will ask. I thank the Deputy. Can we send that note to the agency? I will state we want a reply for next week. They will know the answer to that off by heart. It will be on the top of their head. It has to be top of their risk agenda as we speak and they could give us a reply by lunchtime....

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

Seán Fleming: We discussed it but I would ask for an update.

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

Seán Fleming: The list continues: the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, clear audit opinion; Dublin City University, clear audit opinion, with the standard note from the Comptroller and Auditor General regarding recognition of the pension funds; the finance accounts for the State, clear audit opinion; the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority, clear audit opinion. The Comptroller and...

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

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General has audited them.

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

Seán Fleming: It might have been an administrative oversight.

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

Seán Fleming: We will just ask. I am delighted to hear they were all audited on time appropriately-----