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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Pobal is a name that is popping up all over the place and it is a public body.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will add Pobal to the list.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have mentioned five or six organisations and we will work with the secretariat to line up whatever meetings we can. Some will not be possible but we need to have a few on our agenda when we come back. We will analyse the Comptroller and Auditor's Report and identify the Departments we want to meet at that stage. I suggest that we go into private session to quickly discuss one or two...

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are examining the 2018 appropriation account for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission. We are joined by Mr. Peter Finnegan, Secretary General; Mr. Michael Errity, assistant secretary, corporate and members services division; Ms Elaine Gunn, assistant secretary, parliamentary services division and Clerk Assistant of Dáil Éireann; Ms Mellissa English, assistant secretary, chief...

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I invite Mr. Finnegan to make his opening statement. He is attending for the first time as Accounting Officer of the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Are you sure about that?

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Thank you, Mr. Finnegan, for your opening statement. The lead speaker for today's meeting is Deputy Alan Farrell, who has 20 minutes. The second speaker has 15 minutes. All other members have ten minutes. Members have indicated in the following sequence: Deputies Farrell, Jonathan O'Brien, Cullinane, Cassells, Connolly and Catherine Murphy.

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Maximum.

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Deputy Farrell and the next speaker is Deputy Cullinane.

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: The next speaker is Deputy Cassells.

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: The secretariat will circulate that.

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have discussed the Oireachtas television service quite a bit. Some of us here do not get to see all of the programming and might hear people saying they were watching us on a Saturday morning or Sunday evening, for example, which is good. The delegation can send us a note if the information is not to hand, but where is the channel hosted? Is it hosted on Saorview, Sky or Virgin Media?

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is available on the Oireachtas website.

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: What station number is it on Sky?

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is helpful as people often ask where can it be found.

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is easy to find it on Saorview and the website.

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: "Oireachtas Report" used to go out on RTÉ at 11 p.m., midnight or 12.30 a.m. The case has been made that the numbers watching it were quite low, but the programme was useful as it summarised proceedings on the day after a little editing. Now people can watch us to their heart's content for several hours. What work is being done to discover the numbers watching these television channels?

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is not research commissioned by the Oireachtas.

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Are there Oireachtas Facebook and Twitter sites?

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: What is on them? I must not have friended them.