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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: They are done. Does he have any idea of when they might be published?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: This issue will come up again in its annual financial statement for last year and we will have an opportunity to discuss it at that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have discussed the 2017 accounts already. The 2018 accounts are under audit at the moment and will be dealt with later. No. 2147B is from Mr. Liam Sloyan, chief executive officer of the National Treatment Purchase Fund. It is dated 2 May 2019 and updates the committee regarding the review of the system of pricing under the nursing home support scheme. The National Treatment Purchase...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, I understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: That was before the budget.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask that specific question again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: He said that answering the question as to whether the plan should proceed would be a career-ending move.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to Mr. Robert Watt in that specific regard. The Secretary General of the Department of Health will be before the committee today and we will ask him the same question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is that agreed? The committee agrees to that. It is definitely agreed. We note and publish that and will follow up on the request outlined by Deputy Cullinane. The next item of correspondence is No. 2151B from the Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, dated 9 May 2019. It is the minute from the Minister in respect of our periodic report No. 4, which...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is the letter from 10 May, No. 2152B, and I am reading from the top of page 4. I am doing this in the interests of balance. My view was made clear the last day; this is the HSE's view. In the interests of balance I want to put both on the record. It says:This review was conducted over a nine-week period and involved the deployment of a highly experienced international PwC team...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will take it up during the course of that meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask. The Director General of the HSE will be here shortly and we will pose those questions then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: I made a lot of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: The reports from other consultants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss it when the HSE is here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is the Department's position. I read it out but I am not asking people to agree or disagree. I wanted to put it on the record.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: As Chairman, I was trying to be impartial and to show that there was a counter point of view. I have put it on the record and people can judge it accordingly. I am not drawing conclusions. The next item is No. 2155, from the Comptroller and Auditor General, Seamus McCarthy, dated 9 May, providing an update to the committee regarding the submission by public bodies of draft financial...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Supreme Court imposed a stay on progressing one of the appeals. Is the Deputy's point that the case was before the courts and is a matter of public knowledge?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is item No. 10. Which is the other one?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. 8 refers to corporation tax and involves an estimated figure of more than €100 million. It states that the High Court has imposed a stay on progressing this appeal pending the outcome of judicial review proceedings which have yet to be heard in the High Court. No. 10 relates to an environment levy and the estimated quantum of the case is between €30 million and €50...