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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That will go through a consultation process for a couple of months and then it will be reconsidered.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Does Mr. McCarthy hope to have the guidelines issued, subject to approval by mid-year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Could Mr. McCarthy send us a note on that because there are many people in various communities watching the proceedings and one of their main concerns about the guidelines not coming through is that the old policy, which was drafted a long time ago, is now the basis on which local authorities have to make a decision. When were the existing guidelines introduced?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy will understand the reason for concern. In 2006 a big wind turbine was 30 m high, now they are 186 m high. They bear zero relationship to turbines that have been going through the planning process in respect to the guidelines that local authorities are obliged to use. Somebody in the Department has not been fair to either the communities or the local authorities, expecting...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is a new issue I had not heard about previously. Is that in connection with noise?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: It did not deal with the flicker from the blades but noise.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank the witnesses for their time. Much of what was said is of interest to the public. Our job as the Committee of Public Accounts is not just to interrogate the figures but to help the public understanding of what goes on and to get information out. People who are interested in this area will have picked up information during the day. That is part of what we are doing here. I thank...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 152. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for a hearing aid by a person (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10092/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the appointment of a project manager for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9619/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding substitute primary teachers who have had difficulty in receiving payment in January and February 2019 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9664/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the provision of structures at locations (details supplied) by the OPW will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9666/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a project (details supplied) will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9665/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements in place in which Garda stations are not open and a person makes a phone call to that local Garda station; if these calls will be automatically transferred to a further Garda station in the region that is opened on a 24-hour basis and can answer the phone calls; if they are not directed to another Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 336. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hip operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9309/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 337. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be given an appointment in hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9310/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 594. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications for funding under a scheme (details supplied) by county; the amounts that have been approved in respect of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9295/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ms Mary Henry, deputy director of audit. We will hold over the minutes of the last meeting until the next meeting as I just have not had time to review them yet, and we will hold over matters arising. There are three categories of correspondence. The first...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will write back and ask for a detailed explanation of the timing, from the time the report was completed, and the discussions they had with Enet last summer when Enet expected it to be published within weeks, and what was the particular reason for the delay. We want to come back to the broadband issue in our work programme as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is right on that. We are writing back to the Department on that specific issue. The next item is No. 1968 from the Valuation Office and pertains to the Harold's Cross stadium. The Commissioner of Valuation has made it clear that there was no contact whatsoever with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine during the process of valuing Harold's Cross. We have to accept...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Fine and I thank the Deputy. An attachment came with the letter with the heading, national broadband plan state aid compliance update on the mapping of Eir's rural extension plan, dated 8 March 2017. There is a suggestion that we do not publish this because it is marked privileged and confidential. However, they have redacted sections of the report, produced by PwC, on pages 6, 7 and 8,...