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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Can the Deputy or Mr. O'Driscoll tell the watching public what PMDS stands for? We might understand but the watching public might not.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Did you say employment of prisoners?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Prisoners are not employees. Prison officers are employees. Prisoners may have training and other things but they are not employees.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I do not want people thinking prisoners are employed in the Irish Prison Service.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: You are not expected to answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Through the Chair, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Driscoll is not here to answer those questions and I have made it clear that if I am concerned - I already have stated I am -I will be sending on a transcript of the meeting to the Garda. That is the outcome of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I want to clarify something for the public record and for everybody watching. These are questions and issues being raised by Deputy MacSharry, who is one of 13 members of this committee. This is not a request from the Committee of Public Accounts until such time as the committee agrees to put these questions to you. People regularly ask for information but it has to be agreed by the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: No. Just let me finish speaking. Every day we ask for further information but it is agreed by the committee to do so. If one member asks something on which the committee does not agree, it is a matter for that Deputy. I am not restricting Deputy MacSharry but what is happening now is a statement-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I am not restricting a person's right to speak.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I am giving the clarification. This is not a request from the Committee on Public Accounts. The committee has not yet decided what questions to put to the witness. This is a request from one member, which is not representative of the Committee on Public Accounts. I will probably refer the request to An Garda Síochána, and it will be for the members of the committee to decided...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: We are in an unusual situation, but it is not my job to restrict a member in Parliament from saying what he or she has to say. The member is not speaking for the committee. As of now, he is speaking for himself and it will be up to the committee to decide whether it wants to put these questions to the witness.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: To reiterate my position, as Chairman I respect the right of all members to speak openly and freely in this committee, as they are allowed to do in the Chamber. The Deputy has made it very clear that he had questions to put, and that he had made his own investigations and inquiries. No member of the committee is aware of any of the documentation or research the Deputy has carried out. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: The Deputy will have noticed during today's proceedings that it often happens that a member will ask a question, and I will always tell the witnesses that they are to respond to the committee. I said that several times today.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I say it every week. A person should not leave here wondering whether something said here was a request or a remark. I make it clear at every meeting that witnesses are to respond to the committee or to clarify issues for the committee. Questions come from the committee, not from me or from-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: There is no conflict here.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: People now understand the position. This is a matter for the committee. I thank Mr. O'Driscoll and the officials from the Department of Justice and Equality, Mr. Burke from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff for their attendance. The clerk will follow up on any agreed follow-up information approved by the committee in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Who was the Chairman on that occasion?