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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General will clarify that next week. No. 2203B is from Technological University Dublin, which says it submitted its accounts on 29 May. That is good. We also have a letter from Mr. Brendan Gleeson, Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, regarding the financial statements for the fishery harbour centres. I am not completely...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It was not quite sure who was responsible for the final set of wind-up accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It did not know who would produce the accounts. We understand that this is an unusual situation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is really just a matter of producing a final set of accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. 2240B is from the Archdiocese of Dublin with regard to St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The next item of correspondence is from the National Treatment Purchase Fund. No. 2248B is a reply from the chief executive officer of the National Treatment Purchase Fund stating that a new patient access management system went live on 23 May in all public and private hospitals, which took longer than anticipated to implement. The new system will facilitate the earlier finalisation of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The reply indicates that the late submission of its accounts for 2018 arose because the board had to accommodate the work schedule of the accountants it engaged. I am informed that the accounts will be submitted to the Comptroller and Auditor General's office this week, on 21 June.. I also received a reply from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of Communications,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: My understanding is that we did receive that information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will recirculate that information to members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is included in our work programme, which we will move on to shortly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The only sanction is public embarrassment, which I hate to have to do. It should not be our job to police how the well-paid people in these public bodies are doing their jobs. However, if nobody else will police them, including the departmental sectoral committees, we will do it for them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Not necessarily. Bodies under the remit of the Department of Education and Skills were very bad some years ago. For instance, almost all the education and training boards were routinely late. We have smartened that area up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: In the year before this Committee of Public Accounts commenced its work, 40% of accounts were not in within three months. Last year, 87% of public bodies submitted on time, and I expect that figure to be even higher this year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It varies. We are trying to ensure they submit their accounts within three months.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will now move on to the work programme. We have no statements of account to consider. We will shortly welcome delegates from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to discuss the 2017 appropriation account for Vote 30. In the afternoon, we have a private meeting with Mr. Allen Morgan, a former surveyor at the Office of Public Works. I ask as many members as possible to try...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have scheduled a private meeting specifically on this topic, which is in our work programme. At this stage I am going to suspend for a few minutes to allow the witnesses to take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Seán Fleming: We meet to discuss the 2017 appropriation account for Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine. From the Department, we are joined by its Secretary General, Mr. Brendan Gleeson, Dr. Cecil Beamish, Mr. Martin Crowley, Ms Patricia Heeney and Mr. Paul Dillon. We are also joined by Ms Georgina Hughes Elders from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I remind members, witnesses and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Seán Fleming: The lead speaker today is Deputy Catherine Murphy, who has 20 minutes. The second speaker is Deputy Bobby Aylward. Deputies Marc MacSharry and David Cullinane have also indicated and will have ten minutes each.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Gleeson explain that? He said some emissions cannot be traded.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Seán Fleming: Last week, we had a situation about tet trading of emissions. For the benefit of the public, will Mr. Gleeson explain the difference?