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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Licences (8 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a mining licence will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19567/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Registration of Births (8 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1360. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider a scoping exercise into a legal birth registration to be expanded beyond those cases which are already held by Tusla and the Adoption Authority of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19526/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (8 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's allowance in respect of a period will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19499/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (8 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedures for a self-employed person that is signing for jobseeker's allowance on a casual basis; the number of days they can sign during the course of a week, month or calendar year; the income they can earn from self-employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19652/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when wind energy guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19446/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (8 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason tenants who wish to purchase their local authority houses under the tenant purchase scheme are excluded from the scheme if they are in houses that were built under the Part V process in view of the fact that this rule did not exist in relation to previous tenant purchase schemes; the reason he does not consider...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 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 Orla Duane, deputy director of audit. The minutes of the meeting of 27 April have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed. There are no particular matters arising from the minutes, but any matters that arose can be raised as the meeting progresses....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: The process.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: So did I.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Or the contents of the report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have discussed the issue, and we are going to write to the HSE raising the following specific points. We want to deal with the issue of conflict of interest. There was much public commentary about possible conflict of interest from the BAM side, but the Department should have been aware of this issue because it was very much in the public domain. We want clarification on what steps were...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Presumably PwC was given a brief at some point. We want to see the brief it was given for the HSE's earlier report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask for the paragraph containing the conclusion to be clarified. I read it, and there is a different tense used. It is saying "at that time", which is past tense, and the sentence says that it is the right decision. The tense changed, which is extraordinary for a professional report. The first half of the sentence is past tense and the second half is the present tense. I find it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I do not know what PwC is getting at. We want clarification for what that actually means. It does not read clearly. We also want to know about the procurement framework. I understand that, like many public bodies, it has a procurement framework in place. Local authorities have them; if they have to get work done they have a group of people who are pre-approved as part of a tender...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We want the HSE to clarify that. We are not here next week but we are asking for a reply within a maximum of ten days.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have a meeting scheduled with the representatives of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board after the Easter break. The key people from the HSE will have to be here as part of that process. We just find that the paediatric hospital board is well down the pecking order in terms of where the decisions get made. That was the main item of correspondence. The next item is No....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are just noting the two reports – the working paper, or the evaluation of JobPath outcomes for the last quarter of 2016, printed by the Department, and the report on satisfaction with JobPath service providers.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is not counted, as such. There is a suggestion for the Comptroller and Auditor General.