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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: Today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. I call Deputy Connolly. We will wrap this up in a minute.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: No, it is the Accounting Officer.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Cullinane.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I met him just a few minutes ago.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is correct.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am bringing this to a conclusion now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I get the point. I call Deputy MacSharry.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I want to protect the committee-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have not seen that tweet. By way of public information, I want to state that this is highly frustrating. The public are watching this. I am on public record for the last fortnight stating that Mr. Quinn was coming before this committee today. We had understood that and had issued the invitation to the Secretary General as the Accounting Officer. We had also named Mr. Paul Quinn. There...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I want to state this as well in respect of that matter. When we all received this letter via email yesterday evening, a member of this committee, or at least one, immediately sent that to a journalist. The journalist then rang me and he had our letter. I have no idea who that member was, but someone on this committee immediately forwarded that letter to a journalist the minute it arrived...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will answer.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I listen to everybody.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I was speaking a moment ago. We have been dealing with the point Deputy MacSharry raised and we dealt with six different Votes in the group of Votes for the Department of the Taoiseach recently. We had all the legal officers in on one day, such as the Attorney General, the Chief State Solicitor and a group of other bodies. We have regularly combined groups within a Vote and an Accounting...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: We can do our work today and deal with Mr. Quinn at another time. I am not being technical because of what has happened recently. I understood, all along, that Mr. Quinn was responsible to the line Minister relating to the cost overrun. The line Minister appointed him to the board and he was the Minister for Health, not the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have made the point and we must now proceed. We have to finish at 1 p.m. because Mr. Watt is scheduled to meet another Oireachtas committee and that committee is entitled to its slot. The situation is unsatisfactory but I spelled out the remit of the committee because members of the public are watching and they may not have been aware of it. Other Members of the Oireachtas may also not...

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: Today we are examining the historic and continuing role of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the oversight and implementation of projects under the national framework for capital investment and the national development plan. The focus of today's meeting is the Department's role in ensuring that value for money is achieved through the systematic appraisal and professional...