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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask them to follow it up and come back to this matter as soon as possible. We will write to WIT specifically on the issue of the shareholding and ask it to clarify the issue. We will publish its letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It has given us a redacted version of the memorandum today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask it to provide us with a redacted version of the memorandum too, if it is concerned about individuals being identified. That is agreed. No. 2002 is from Professor Donnelly, Waterford Institute of Technology. It relates to the same issue. He states that the institute is seeking clarification in response to the committee's request. That was an earlier acknowledgement of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: People will have noticed the format of how we handle our business since 1 January is that we have the minutes which we publish and then the secretariat always now issues, with the minutes, an internal briefing note for us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is not a public document; it is our own working document. It is a members' note for follow-up items and other matters. I hope the points the Deputy has requested are covered in that document. It is being actioned if they are. If anything is not included in that, we will ask the secretariat to issue a further letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is fair enough. Is Deputy Jonathan O'Brien happy that the points he raised are in that briefing note?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is a follow-up item in the action note for the committee. I think it is covered in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Including the sign-off.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for the process of approval by the board or otherwise for the Bray Civic Centre and not just the rent-free period. We will follow that up. We will hold over this item because we are awaiting consent from the valuer. We will not publish that until we get consent. The next item is No. 2012 from Mr. Paul Quinn, chief procurement officer of the Office of Government Procurement,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Quinn is a civil servant and a member of the NPHDB, as a nominee of the Minister for Health. Some people might not agree with his point of view that he was responsible to the Minister for Health. We have invited him before us in respect of his role on the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, NPHDB, as opposed to his role in the OGP. We will run through those points again...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. The invitation to the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr. Watt, is exactly as Deputy Murphy indicated and relates to capital projects. There is a section in this letter dealing with capital works procurement policy. We want a copy of the capital works management framework, which I am sure is a substantial document. We need to see the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Which Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will deal with that later in the work programme. The date we pencilled in was the week before the PwC report will come out. I see no benefit in having it then. We will come to that matter in a moment. Next week's meeting will start at 9 a.m. and we will get down to the main business because Mr. Watt, the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Department will have a big folder but I hope it will have some guidance notes or operational manuals. We will request documents that summarise or list the key points and guidance for officers on the key issues as well as requesting the large document. I could probably find the document on the Department's website but we will ask the Department to send it to us in the next day or two to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The correspondence arrived late, so I will ask the secretariat to print off hard copies of the document on HAP payments and the social housing delivery report for 2018 for members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am pleased to note that no statements and accounts have been received in the past seven days. Members will see the draft work programme on the screen. We will deal with housing this morning and the Local Government Fund and central government funding for local authorities in the afternoon. We will have one lead speaker in the morning and one lead speaker in the afternoon and a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is all right. If Deputies cannot be here, we will still put their names to the report. If Deputies have nothing to say or add to the report, we will take it as consenting to its publication.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will book the 7.15 p.m. slot. The meeting will not take too long. I wish to point out, with the media listening, that reports on the aforementioned document appeared on the front page of a newspaper yesterday. I must stress that the document sent to members by email was a working document produced by the secretariat based on its best summation of the meetings of the committee. I am...