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- 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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is not a request. It is a suggestion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: We included a chapter on JobPath in our earlier periodic report. I will ask the secretariat to go back through our recent periodic reports immediately. We have received the formal response from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding our previous communication. I do not think we have received a response from the Department regarding some of our previous periodic reports,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: As a result of the reports we have received today, we will write directly to the Department concerning this issue and the timeframe involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: We know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will also ask if there are any rollover provisions, whether this goes back out to tender or whether the two present companies have the contract. No. 2106B, dated 11 April, is from Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll, Secretary General at the Department of Justice and Equality, and provides information requested by the committee following previous correspondence in respect of the Prison Service. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is the end of the statements on correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: They are people working in the charities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is KARE in Kildare.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: That would be a disability unit.