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- 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?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have to write to the person who wrote to us to get their permission to do that. There was a reference to inaccurate or misleading statements at a recent meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts and we should write directly to the KWETB about that because evidence given at this committee is our affair.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it is about legal advice. The chairman gave an answer so we will ask for confirmation or clarification, or maybe a response to that part of the report with the consent of the person who wrote to us. To be clear, we have to get the consent of the person who wrote to us, we will write to the board about the evidence given by the board members and the Accounting Officer to this committee...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not know about the judgment. It concerned an individual who sought information under freedom of information on value for money in respect of Irish Public Bodies Mutual Insurance Limited. It was granted by the Information Commissioner but the Local Government Management Agency, LGMA, refused to issue it, which became the subject of the High Court proceedings last week. Did the court-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will get our own update.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is to be released but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: She was the chairperson.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will get it because the correspondent wrote to this committee on account of the fact that we were dealing with insurance claims. The State Claims Agency came before the committee and indicated that it had taken over dealing with all the section 38 organisations. It received approximately €4 billion in State funding for its activities and it is welcome that this has all been...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Seán Fleming: I refer to the case of IPB and local government.