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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...

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

Seán Fleming: No. What was reported-----

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

Seán Fleming: Yes, but the electronic copy that had been sent was just a working document.

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

Seán Fleming: Its contents were reported in the newspaper yesterday.

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

Seán Fleming: Yes, the electronic copy was given to a journalist. There are three references in the working document that may not be relevant in finalising our report. It was only a discussion document which had been prepared by the secretariat and circulated in electronic format. It runs to between 70 and 80 pages and we need time to read it before next week.

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 a good suggestion. We could be tempted to do so. We will think about that one.

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

Seán Fleming: We have made our point. The plan is to sign off on the report next week and publish it on the Wednesday of the following week, 13 March. We want to have it done before St. Patrick's Day. On Thursday, 14 March, we will discuss the national broadband plan with representatives of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. We want to bring our consideration of that...