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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes, we have made a decision. In fact, we have received correspondence today. I asked for a couple of items of correspondence in relation to an outbreak of TB in a prison to be followed up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I suggest that if there are issues which are not covered, members-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am saying that specific-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is the Department of Justice and Equality. The Deputy would like somebody specifically from the Irish Prison Service to be here on that day.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: He did.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I think the secretariat sent a note to members to ask if there were follow-up issues. I do not know if any members responded. The main issue is the justice Vote but there is unfinished business relating to some issues that the Deputy mentioned. I think the best way to deal with that is to have the head of the Prison Service for a portion of that meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: Maybe we will do it that way. The Department of Justice and Equality is a big enough issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is a big Vote on its own and could get lost.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: It will not be enough.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will hold that over. I have no idea of the answer to one point that Deputy MacSharry raises. I would like to know how many of the senior management of the Prison Service in Longford have been governors or assistant governors. In An Garda Síochána, there are senior gardaí at the most senior level as well as civilians. Do we have several governors and people who know how...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: There is a lot in it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: Which is this?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is on our own agenda.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: We should meet with him before we meet the-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will decide next week. I think there is agreement to meet him. I ask the secretariat to let that gentleman know that we will be meeting and will discuss the arrangement next Thursday. We will meet him before that. We will put him on notice and agree the format of that next week.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are resuming our examination of the 2017 appropriation accounts for the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Vote 29, and we will deal specifically with matters relating to broadband provision. Following our previous meeting with the Department, we met the following broadband service providers and representative organisations to inform members of the committee in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: Which commission?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Griffin. For people watching, the Comptroller and Auditor General is not making an opening statement. He made it at the previous meeting. I call Deputy MacSharry.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy should not influence that process.