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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.

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

Seán Fleming: Who manages them?

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

Seán Fleming: What does it do?

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

Seán Fleming: We will go back to the big issue mentioned, the Angela Kerins case. There is a committee working to report to the Committee on Procedure, etc. Will Mr. Finnegan run through the four points in the letter? The Supreme Court mentioned remit.

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

Seán Fleming: As Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, I fully accept the decision and have no issue with anything stated. I have said several times that it is not a "chilling effect", that it could give us an opportunity to be proactive and improve how we operate. I see nothing negative with the overall issue. Some people might present it in that way; that is their affair. Does the Secretary...

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

Seán Fleming: Is he working to it?

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

Seán Fleming: I think we can agree on this. The remit of the various committees needs to be looked at. Whether that means people working within their remit or whether their remit needs to be enlarged or narrowed, there is quite an issue to be looked at there.

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

Seán Fleming: Work needs to be done there. So we accept what the Supreme Court ruled there.

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

Seán Fleming: I have said this publicly several times. Witnesses get invitations. The Secretary General will know that over the decades no member or Chairman of a committee has ever seen the invitations that went out to the witnesses. We have never had sight of that. That needs to be addressed among other things in terms of the content. There clearly was a failure, which I am acknowledging. I accept...

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

Seán Fleming: The role of the Chair has come in, which I totally agree with. I am chairing the Committee of Public Accounts and I have chaired other committees in previous Dáileanna. How many committees do we have?