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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (9 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 447. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards and general practitioner visit cards, respectively, that were renewed in 2018; the number of these in which an online review form was requested; if a procedure will be put in place in circumstances in which there is a permanent life medical issue that medical cards can be issued on a much longer term basis which in turn will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been contacted and the number yet to be contacted in respect of the proposal to allow pensioners affected by the 2012 changes in rate bands to have their pension entitlement calculated on their total contributions basis; when all persons will be contacted; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Council Funding (9 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 658. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available for community grants from the Heritage Council in 2017, 2018 and 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16200/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 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 Maureen Mulligan, deputy director of audit. We have received apologies from Deputies Deering and Kelly. Are the minutes of 28 March agreed and can they be published? Agreed. Nothing specific arises that will not come up in the course of our discussions...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We can hold it over again. We are happy to do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: There was one other item of correspondence related to this. It is from-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: No, we did not receive such correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss it the next day, and it is up to us to decide whether we have further questions to ask. We have noted and published it, but we need to discuss it. We will make a point of discussing it and make sure, when the documentation is going out, that members are aware that it will be up for discussion the next day. The next item is No. 2078B from Ms Maria Browne, Chief State...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is all the same topic.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have not done that recently. We had done it previously. Do the Deputies suggest that we go through the points and divide them into matters relevant to the Department and those relevant to the internal workings of KWETB? We will not follow up at this stage. It is highly complicated and many issues will arise.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will write back to the correspondent, acknowledging what we received and asking him or her to separate the issues he or she wants us to deal with through the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are not doing the board's work.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask that question. I have had a look at it. Some items refer to the audit committee and other items ask why board meetings were not held to discuss particular matters before the KWETB's appearance here. That is a matter for the board, not for this committee. I will put on the record that we invite Accounting Officers or chairpersons of boards here every week. It is not a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is not our job to investigate what happens on every board.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: There are seven headings. I will not get into any of the specifics because people will understand what we are discussing. The person who has written to us questions why legal advice was withheld from the board, why two audit committee chairs have departed since September 2018, who the parties were to leases on which KWETB entered into agreements, the schedule of meetings between the board...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Do we address this directly to the Department, in that case? This is something the Department and the KWETB should be doing on an ongoing basis. It is not our job to micromanage this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We received items the last day and published them but we held over the discussion on them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We got quite a bit of correspondence the last day but members had not fully read through it. We agreed to hold over a discussion on it. If there are unanswered questions we will deal with them the next day - we just have not done it yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Should we send this to the Secretary General of the Department?