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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is the same law that is blocking others.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It will allow us to import nuclear energy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Three buses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Taoiseach has forgotten about smoky coal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. He is joined by Ms Josephine Mooney, deputy director of audit, and Mr. Ronan McCabe, senior auditor. Apologies have been received from Deputies Deering, Jonathan O'Brien and O'Connell. The first item is the minutes of the meeting of 16 May. Are they agreed? Agreed....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: I support what has been said. I will add a few observations to what the Deputy has said. We will write back to the HEA seeking further specifics on the matter. People can send information to the secretariat in the meantime. We will hold the item over for discussion at our next meeting after the June bank holiday weekend.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is good. I agree with what is being said, but I took a little while to read the report and I want to put some remarks on the record. In the first paragraph the report reads: "This review was also informed by a recommendation of the Dáil's Committee of Public Accounts ... in July 2017 [when we said that we were] not satisfied that there was sufficient clarity [in] relation to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General for a general comment on whether subsidiaries and joint ventures are common throughout the sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: As Deputy MacSharry has suggested, we will have to write to the HEA and ask for a report on each body under its remit and separately to the universities. We may not need the same level of detail but we should at least get the corporate structure, the breakdown, and details of compliance with procedures in the legislation under which the college or university, as the case may be, was established.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to it next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will hold it over. The Deputy can see what we are thinking.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will be happy to do that because if we send off correspondence in the meantime, we will still be waiting on the reply. We have touched on the issue and we now know it is a broader issue. We will come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. 2170 is next from Mr. Ciarán Breen, director of the State Claims Agency. It provides information requested by the committee regarding the sums involved in potential claims or claims lodged in respect of an outbreak of tuberculosis within the Irish Prison Service. The agency has not attached confidentiality clauses to any settlement. Mr Breen states that the figures provided are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will put that correspondence on the record. No. 2174, dated 21 May, is from Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll, Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality. It provides information requested by the committee regarding the lessons for the Irish Prison Service to ensure issues as the outbreak of tuberculosis will be prevented. We will discuss the two letters together as they deal with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: They will appear before the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: I agree with the Deputy. I am concerned most by the letter from Mr. O'Driscoll on this issue. It states that following the outbreak of tuberculosis in 2011 in the Irish Prison Service it was recognised that a whole-of-prison approach to TB control was required. It further states that the tuberculosis management policy was completed on 3 January 2019. It took eight years from the outbreak...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: The agency is scheduled to appear before the committee on 4 July.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. Risk management must also be considered. Prevention is better than cure. We will take these matters up with the representatives of the State Claims Agency when they appear before the committee in five weeks to deal with its annual report. No. 2173 is from Mr. Drew Harris, the Garda Commissioner. It is a request that the record be corrected in respect of a comment he made at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: What does the Deputy find appalling?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: The person was arrested in their job.