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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (18 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on setting up a judicial council to review the level of awards for personal injury insurance claims; the timeline for such a proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25874/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (18 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: 278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider setting up a service to facilitate families in which a death must be the subject of an inquest; if funding will be provided to support families in terms of possible legal costs and the representation that may be required at these inquests (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (18 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: 491. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will facilitate all hospital consultants who were on the 1997 consultants contract that commenced before 2008 to switch to the 2008 contract arising from the High Court decision on 15 June 2018 prior to which the HSE was not honouring the contract until decided upon by the court; if the contracts will be made available to all those on such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Remuneration (18 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: 492. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and HSE salary scale rates for hospital consultants for each of the three types of contracts will be provided; the number of points on each of the scales; the number of different payment rates for hospital consultants in the system; the actual amounts at each point on the different scales; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined today by Ms Orla Duane, deputy director of audit at the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Apologies have been received from Deputies Deering and Connolly. Before we commence our main business, there are several matters to be discussed in private...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am happy to hold it over. We had a preliminary discussion the last day, but there is no problem with having a more detailed discussion at a future date. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item is No. 2193B from Mr. Niall Cody, Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, dated 27 May 2019, responding to recommendation No. A17 of this committee's fifth periodic report regarding the threshold...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is that the case even where they have not generated any income but they have assets here?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: It also means that when they show up in the Revenue list they will be caught for double taxation. The Revenue may have some arrangements in place to make sure they pay the tax in the country where they are resident for tax purposes and paying tax somewhere. It might not always be in Ireland but they pay appropriate tax in the appropriate jurisdiction.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: There was not a suggestion but there was a concern in the interests of transparency and general taxpayer feeling that everybody who should be in the tax net is in it. It is about fairness and transparency as well as collecting tax. Overall it has been good from that point of view. We note and publish that and we acknowledge the good work of the Revenue Commissioners in that regard. No....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: For major contracts, certifying engineers and architects will normally verify the work done on a weekly or monthly basis and interim invoices will be submitted to the contracting organisation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: There is an ongoing method. Nobody waits for two years to get paid any more. Bills are submitted regularly and at different stages. The stages would be set out in each contract.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am talking about the main contractor submitting it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: It also says that any dispute relating to payment may be referred to an adjudicator. We know, however, in practical terms, that if a subcontractor informs the main contractor that he or she is being taken to adjudication by the subcontractor, and there is a job coming up next year-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: -----subcontractors can be in a vulnerable position, which is the point. I stress again for people who have an interest in this that the Construction Contracts Act applies to contracts in the private sector. It is not just the public sector. This applies across the board in the entire State and is not confined. People who are working in the private sector in building etc. have the same...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: In respect of No. 2195B, we note it and are asking for clarification in that, when a claim is being processed by the main contractor with the contracting body, where stands the subcontractor in the meantime? How does that fit into that legislation? No. 2196B is from Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 29 May, in response to our request...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: There are three short redactions blanking out key issues, but it provides more information than had been provided publicly in the earlier document. It is not 100% but it at least goes some of the way. We note and publish that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will forward it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss the actual work programme on our report during private session. We will have suggestions in private session regarding our work on broadband because we do not want any unnecessary duplication between us and the communications committee. We will forward this to it in the event that the committee members there have not seen it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is one of the big four companies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: He went to PwC rather than Mazars which had done its internal audit.