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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: -----but they were never laid before the Oireachtas for the past four years. We will just ask for a brief note as to why. Next is Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, clear audit opinion, except there is a note in respect of non-compliant procurement of €5.4 million. We have not got to the bottom of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is to put pressure on them to get it right in future. They would have referred to their compliance statement, as the Comptroller and Auditor General said, but we want more detail. Asking for more detail will make them more alert. I know from the HSE's non-compliance that it is only based on a sample. Was that the totality in the case we are discussing now? Do many of bodies do this on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask that. The same will apply to Teagasc's financial statement with attention drawn to €1.2 million non-compliant procurement. We will write the same letter. Moving on to Solas, it is a clear audit opinion, and to Enterprise Ireland, clear audit opinion. However, as part of the disposal of its interests in a company in 2018, Enterprise Ireland recovered an amount loaned to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to Waterford Institute of Technology to request the historical breakdown at the end of each financial year from when the revenue deficit commenced and by how much it increased each year up to the current position. Next is the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, clear audit opinion, and the Data Protection Commission, clear audit opinion. One was the cessation of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not do any of them. I tell them it is a short drive from Portlaoise and they may take themselves up to Dublin.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Let us publicise it. Online is the way to do it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: And the guys in Donegal. That is the little bit of good news. We are moving on to the work programme. Bord na gCon is coming in in ten or 15 minutes. There is no division time in the Dáil so we will take it as we go. We will not be here too late in the afternoon because we do not have the break for voting. The following week, we have arranged for the Office of the Data Protection...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Their new name for their financial statements for the second half of last year was that. The accounts of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner have ceased. It does not exist. The Data Protection Commission now exists.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. The commission is here next week. We will also have a representative from the Department of Justice and Equality. Will that be the Accounting Officer? We are not sure. For the record, we had this prearranged before the summer. The public services card issue has emerged since and it will definitely be a point of discussion. People will wonder why we are doing it. Because the Data...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Both will be here. Ms Dixon will be present.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: They will. The secretariat is working on a note. We will get it to members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will tease this out now. My understanding is that Ms Dixon is not the Accounting Officer but that someone in the Department is. Who is the Accounting Officer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Not yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Who is the Accounting Officer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Justice and Equality is the DPC's parent Department, not the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Am I not correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Justice and Equality will be before us tomorrow, not the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection will not be before us on this matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is another day's work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have already contacted the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection about appearing before us as early as possible after the Comptroller and Auditor General issues his annual report. It is a large Department, but obviously the issue in question will arise. The budget is in the middle of October, which will be the Department's busiest couple of weeks of the year in terms of...