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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. I know people might say we go beyond our brief but to go after the President of the United States might be stretching it a little bit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. 2192C, from an individual, is dated 27 May 2019 and is with regard to the foal levy. We have previously received inquiries from the same correspondent on this matter and forwarded a response from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine which provided a background to the foal levy. The Department advised that Horse Racing Ireland administers the levy and it is not practical to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: All members?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is correct. The Oireachtas website will cover that comprehensively.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. 2198C, from Deputy Marc MacSharry, is dated 29 May 2019 and is with regard to correspondence from Mr. David Hall on the IBRC liquidation. This item has been referred to and we will deal with it in private session in a few minutes. No. 2200C, from an individual, is dated 31 May 2019 and requests an independent review of the technological, roll-out and investment options for the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay, we will ask the OPW for a general response, not specific to this particular contract and contractor. He says he provides all the information on the type of windows but he did not get the job.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: If the committee recalls, we had the Garda Síochána in here talking about its Vote and expenditure on contracts the previous year and we mentioned Garda stations overrunning. This is in relation to contracts in previous years that have been audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. We just want to know, and I will wait for the confirmation of the OPW that it and the Garda...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Joint Committees on Justice and Equality, and Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach for OPW. We could send it to the two committees.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have disposed of it, noted it and moved on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The opening sentence of the email to the Committee of Public Accounts states that the following emails and attachments are a submission of evidence regarding major procurement failures by the OPW that have cost the taxpayer significant money. He is saying there are procurement failures by the OPW that have cost the taxpayer money. We cannot ignore the opening sentence. We will write to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: This is not within our remit. The individual can take that up with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, if he chooses to. We will so advise the individual. We are not going there. Correspondence No. 2223C from an individual relates to the financial viability of wind farms in Ireland. This matter is not within the remit of the committee. Is it agreed that we forward...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will do so. This issue arises from evidence the Commissioner gave to the committee a few weeks ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will check the Official Report for the last meeting. Deputy Cullinane was not in attendance and, after a brief discussion, we agreed to hold the matter over. I am informed that we did write to the Minister after the last meeting inquiring as to how the error had arisen. We are not suggesting it was anything deliberate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: That concludes correspondence to the committee. We will now deal with statements and accounts received since the last meeting. There are five statements and accounts for review, as listed on members' screens. The first is the Public Trustee Account which administers 148 trusts related to activities of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, including former Land Commission Trust...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will hold over the noting of these accounts of the National Asset Management Agency until next week. Our periodic report includes several recommendations in respect of NAMA which I do not think we have time to get into today. As I am not at all satisfied with the response from NAMA, I will hold over the response from the Minister for Finance to the periodic report. However, if members...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Has it accepted the reality of the situation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to NAMA asking how the issue arose, how it came to light and why it took so long to deal with it.