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

Seán Fleming: It took it out.

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

Seán Fleming: It excluded it.

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

Seán Fleming: No.

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

Seán Fleming: If we think back to the NAMA legislation, it went through quite a lot of Dáil debate and discussion. The Minister had some documents out there well in advance. It was highly teased out. I am sure there are still flaws in it. We spotted the flaws in section 172 here as a result of our work ten years on, or perhaps it was known much earlier in the Department, but the Dáil did not...

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

Seán Fleming: Right. We are not getting into the essence of the details of the correspondence No. 2299C. Yesterday I received two other anonymous letters in the same vein, which I have given to the secretariat. All three of them were essentially on the same issue with regard to National University of Ireland Maynooth solely as result of us raising the matter here last week. Related correspondence No....

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

Seán Fleming: The onus is on the college to deal with this issue. We have written to it and will send further correspondence supplementing the earlier correspondence. We will ask it to respond to all the issues raised when it comes to reply. We will circulate the letter that we intend to issue to the members of the committee.

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

Seán Fleming: As that issue of part-time staff is referred to in the correspondence we received, it will be in the letter that we write to the college. The next item of correspondence is No. 2300C, from an individual, referring to the "broadband farce". That is the individual's view. I propose that we send the individual the copy of the sixth periodic report in which we made our recommendations on...

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

Seán Fleming: We will put it on the work programme. The Comptroller and Auditor General will issue his report at the end of September so we will have that on our work programme next year when addressing the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. We will note and publish that. Is the Deputy happy for us to deal with it when the Department comes in?

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

Seán Fleming: No. 2304C is from the chairman of a group called the Renewable Gas Forum dated 5 July 2019, which wants to highlight a provision in the climate action plan regarding the provision for agriculture-sourced biomethane in heat. The matter raised is a policy matter, which is a matter for the Department. We have issued a report on climate change as it relates to us. This has come to us because...

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

Seán Fleming: How many weeks ago was that?

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

Seán Fleming: We will phone the Department in the course of the day. If we asked 20 questions, perhaps it could send back some answers, rather than waiting for every question-----

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

Seán Fleming: We will ask today to be provided with that response immediately. No. 2308C is from an individual with some comments regarding the recent media coverage of the greyhound industry. I know the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine discussed that at length. We will definitely have Bord na gCon on our work programme in the autumn. We will get the annual accounts from the...

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

Seán Fleming: We will put it on the work programme. I received another item yesterday which I will pass on to the secretariat shortly. It has arrived for me as Chairperson and I do not want to sit on it for the summer. It is a letter from the Irish Petrol Retailers Association regarding the Valuation Office and Valuation Tribunal. We had a discussion about the Valuation Office here on 27 June. The...

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

Seán Fleming: If Deputy Kelly submits them, we will deal with it.

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

Seán Fleming: We will deal with it as promptly, fairly and quickly as we can.

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

Seán Fleming: The next item is the statements and accounts received since the last meeting. They are coming up on the screen now. The Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, representatives of which will be before us in a few minutes, had expenditure of €134 million. Microfinance Ireland, which had a turnover of €539,000, received a clear audit opinion. I am proposing that we put the...

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

Seán Fleming: The NTMA accounts received a clear audit opinion. The Comptroller and Auditor General has highlighted non-compliant procurement in respect of the NTMA administration accounts and, in the case of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, has drawn attention to weaknesses in internal controls relating to foreign currency hedging which resulted in a loss of €721,000. We will write to the...

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

Seán Fleming: These are all subsidiaries. The other subsidiaries on the list are the National Asset Management DAC; the National Asset Management Group Services DAC; the National Asset Loan Management DAC; the National Asset Property Management DAC; the National Asset Management Services DAC; the National Asset JVA DAC, which is a special purpose vehicle set up by NAMA; the National Asset North Quays DAC;...

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

Seán Fleming: We will circulate it.

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

Seán Fleming: The next item is the work programme. I want to make some suggestions. I will explain how this works practically. The Comptroller and Auditor General's report will be out at the end of September. We will have to give people at least a week to come in. We might speak to the Comptroller and Auditor General closer to that time about who we might invite in. Maybe that will happen in early...