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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-----

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...