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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are talking about learning. My next point is in the same space. What learning can Tusla do from the following? I have a specific case in mind but will speak generally rather than to get into that. I refer to circumstances in which a couple with their own children take in a couple of foster children. It happens all over the place. Let us say a foster child in the care setting does...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: It must happen. It can happen.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: They should. I accept that there are issues of retention and new staff. I sympathise with staff. It is an emotionally difficult job but a satisfying one on the other hand.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: One must ask where we would be without them, collectively. On that note of appreciation for the work foster carers do, I thank the witnesses for their attendance. The committee is agreeing that the Clerk will follow up on any of the information requested by members from witnesses directly. They will liaise with the clerk to get the volume of information. There are figures in the Tusla...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Collection (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases that incurred a local property tax generated surcharge in each year since the local property tax was introduced; the amount of such surcharges; the amounts actually paid in respect of these on an annual basis; the breakdown of the surcharge generated with regard to income tax, corporation tax and capital gains tax; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated in Northern Ireland under the cross border initiative in each year since 2014; the number treated to date in 2019; the payments by the HSE in each year in respect of these cases; the procedures the HSE has in place regarding the fitness to practise of the various persons who carry out medical procedures in Northern Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (12 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if information on all maternity units will be provided (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24488/19]

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...