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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Those employees may have very few rights. During last week's meeting we asked representatives of the Health Service Executive, HSE, for a breakdown of staff numbers, including those in section 38 and section 39 organisations and contract staff. In our letter seeking clarification, we asked the number of whole-time equivalents in agency staff to the HSE. I have never seen that figure and I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: School secretaries and bus drivers may also have to do that. They now have to sign on to get the dole if they do not have permanent contracts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We would probably be coming at it through the back door. The sectoral committee should primarily deal with such matters to an extent. If the Deputy has an issue-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We can write to the Higher Education Authority, HEA, on foot of the Deputy's comments if she so wishes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy can liaise with the secretariat. We will agree in principle to write to the HEA raising these matters and rely on the Deputy to have an input in drafting the letter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: The next set of accounts relates to the Commission for Communications Regulation. It is a clear audit opinion. The utilities regulator is a different outfit.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: There is a clear audit opinion for IDA Ireland. The Digital Hub Development Agency provides operating space for start-up businesses in digital media, technology and the Internet. Is it located in Dublin 8?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: It also has a clear audit opinion. The next item is the work programme. Representatives of the Houses of the Oireachtas Service will be in next week to discuss its appropriation accounts. Is there an annual report that is separate from those accounts? We can see what we have.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will have a copy of that. In the afternoon there is an informal meeting on matters relating to the Irish Banking Resolution Corporation liquidation. The witnesses are Mr. David Hall, who is attending in person, and Professor Constantin Gurdgiev, who will attend via conference call from the United States. The outstanding matters are the appropriation accounts for the Courts Service,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We changed it. We brought forward the meeting with the HSE on its financial statements to last week, when the Courts Service was due to come in, with a view to swapping them but the alternative date did not suit the Courts Service so we said we would just defer it. We brought the HSE meeting forward last week-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is on our list. We will probably-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is the only one left standing. We will meet Courts Service officials very soon after the recess but we will wait for the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We can have the postponed meeting and discuss the 2018 appropriation accounts together.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will provisionally discuss that next week before we leave.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Once the Deputy declares it, it should not be an issue. It is a fact of life that conflicts of interest arise and the issue is how to deal with them. The first way for the Deputy to deal with it is to put it on the public record at the start of the meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: The most straightforward way to handle that is to put it on the public record.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: There will be no other meetings. We will suspend for a few minutes to allow our witnesses to take their seats.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: This morning we are meeting the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, regarding the NTMA financial statements 2018 and the Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2017, chapter 21 - accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency. There will be two parts or sessions to our engagement with the NTMA today. We will deal with all matters in the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy and call Mr. O'Kelly to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. O'Kelly. Since we will have two sessions, there will be a lead speaker in the first session - Deputy Cullinane, who will have 20 minutes - and all other Deputies will have ten minutes each. In the second session, the lead speaker will also have 20 minutes and other members will have ten minutes each. Members have indicated for this session in the following sequence: Deputies...