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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will pass on that observation. Sometimes females can be better at minding money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will pass on that observation directly to Mr. Downes or whoever. No, it is not for the committee as they are only members. We will pass our observation on to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, as he is the man in charge. I thank the Deputies for the observation. The next item of correspondence is No. 2294B from the Department of Justice and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, as that committee deals with the OPW. The OPW reports to that committee and its Estimates go through it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: We would ask it to take on board everything Mr. Morgan has said about a new agency, transfer of property, and so on. They are all policy issues for the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, as he is the chairman of that committee. The Committee of Public Accounts cannot take on what Mr. Morgan is suggesting. We accept his points about learning lessons, especially from the Miesian Plaza, and ensuring those lessons are embedded in all OPW projects in the future, but many of the points he made are major Government policy issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is good stuff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: Very good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will certainly thank him for the earlier correspondence, for the information and the report he provided, for attending the meeting in private session, and for the follow-up documentation we have now received. While we will send his correspondence on to the other committee, we have all learned from this process and we can all use this information in our roles in the Oireachtas, so we will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: Representatives from the agency will be before the committee later, so we might raise it with them then. We note that item. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 2289C from Deputy Catherine Murphy, dated 27 June 2019, endorsing our decision at last week’s meeting to include the Irish Greyhound Board and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on our work programme, and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will have it for the autumn schedule.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. We can include them on the work programme for the autumn schedule. The matters arising from the "RTÉ Investigates" programme will be discussed at next week's agriculture committee meeting. In any event, we will discuss all relevant issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and we deal with the funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is agreed and it is in our work programme for the autumn. Correspondence No. 2290 is from an individual, dated 27 June, which makes some observations relating to housing subsidies. We note that item. The next item is statements of accounts received since the last meeting, of which there are four. One relates to University College Cork, UCC. There is a qualified audit opinion and the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: With whom would it be shared?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is it being overly prudent?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: Does the 76% refer to the Department's share?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is the Department not talking to UCC on the matter?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: The accounts for 2017 and 2018, running up to the end of September 2018, will be with the committee next spring.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)
Seán Fleming: The matter may or may not be resolved. Please keep us informed.