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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: It also affects the credibility of the people who commissioned PwC to do the report if the same people were aware that it was involved in the earlier decision. I use the word "if". It is not just PwC, it is the entire management of this project in the HSE.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am asking someone in the secretariat to contact the HSE via our usual point of contact to say we want a reply emailed to the committee by lunchtime and before the conclusion of our business today. I want that message to go to the HSE point of contact on the role of PwC and clarification of the matters I have just raised. Why was PwC commissioned to carry out the cost review process? I am...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: They mention Alan Moore, director of strategic capital development at Western Trust in Northern Ireland, who met members of the paediatric hospital board.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask also for a list of other advisers who were part of the document, "The New Children's Hospital Programme: Options for Going Forward". We want an emailed answer to that before the meeting is concluded today. The HSE knows the answer and can reply within an hour. There will be phone calls from lots of people seeking that answer and we want it in writing here today. We will check...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is good. The matter has come up here a few times here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy referring to protected disclosures notified to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We issued a notice a while ago and I will ask for it to be recirculated and updated if necessary. It is something we have to be careful about. We are not the final arbiter of these matters but we will provide an updated briefing note on that exact topic and discuss it then.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will and we will circulate that note in the meantime. The next item is a list of statements and accounts received since the last meeting. The first is from the Medical Bureau of Road Safety and a clear audit opinion is provided. What is its link with the Road Safety Authority?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Which Department is it under?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: The next item is the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, Caranua, and its 2017 accounts. A clear audit opinion is provided but attention is drawn to the ongoing weakness in the board's control over grant payments. This has been mentioned here a number of times. The total value of the fund at the end of 2017 was €27 million. I do not know what the position at the end of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Will we write to Caranua to ask for a current update?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Maximum.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: A small amount also remains to be collected by the fund. We will write to Caranua for an update on its current financial position. No. 4.3 is the 2016 and 2017 accounts of the National College of Art and Design. There is a clear audit opinion but attention is drawn to the college's disclosure that it was not fully in compliance with the code of practice for the governance of State bodies...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: In the report. The next item is the Legal Aid Board. A clear audit opinion is provided and an issue of non-procurement is raised. We will deal with that as part of our periodic report. The staff are compiling a list of all those as we go along. The next item relates to Inland Fisheries Ireland, which has been given a clear audit opinion. That is the end of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: The bureau handles breath tests. Is that its main task?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is a significant task. The next item is the work programme. There is nothing significant in the work programme. We are trying to fill it. Next week, we will hear from the EPA. The following week is a non-sitting week. We have the list of other organisations to come in, including An Garda Síochána, the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, the Courts Service, the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Which we are holding over. We are holding over one chapter from that report from the Comptroller and Auditor General. That is because we dealt with the HSE financial statements last summer before we had sight of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report so we will deal with that chapter now. We will also deal with the Houses of the Oireachtas Appropriation Accounts for 2018 some time...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: The inquiry took place several years ago.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: And Haulbowline.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I received correspondence recently from an individual regarding an old inquiry relating to Aughinish and health risks to local landowners. Perhaps it came up at this committee previously but I will pass the issue to the secretariat in order to ensure that it is addressed.