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

Seán Fleming: They do not specifically have to go one by one. It might be helpful to members if I indicated the scale of the moneys to which we are referring. The lowest amount I can see on the list is for the Teaching Council of Ireland, for which the figure is €60,000, whereas the Commission for Communications Regulation had to make arrears payments totalling €1.13 million. The...

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

Seán Fleming: Would the Deputy like the committee to write to each of the four organisations to ask what its plans are, what the implications are and proposals it has to deal with the issue?

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

Seán Fleming: We will write to each of the boards. Is that okay?

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

Seán Fleming: We will not just leave it at that. We will follow through and write to the four groups mentioned in the schedule about the issue. I thank the Deputy for following through on the point. Item No. 1969 is correspondence sent to An Garda Síochána by the organisation Former Local Authority Members Éire, FLAME, about the winding up of the Association of Municipal Authorities of...

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

Seán Fleming: No. I have not seen that letter.

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

Seán Fleming: I am advised that the secretariat, on receipt of the letter, followed it up directly with the Higher Education Authority, HEA. I am told the report is almost finalised. Next week, we will formally give a deadline of two weeks to have it on our desk.

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

Seán Fleming: We will write to CIT and say we want the report. Is that agreed? Agreed.

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

Seán Fleming: Yes.

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

Seán Fleming: We got the full list.

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

Seán Fleming: We got the full list and list of subsidiaries, all of which are consolidated into the financial statements that we get. None of them stands outside. We will come back to the issue when discussing our work programme.

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

Seán Fleming: Yes, we will do so in a moment.

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

Seán Fleming: Next, we will discuss the accounts received since the last meeting and then we will go on to the work programme. We had the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities, which got a clear audit opinion. Athlone Institute of Technology got a clear audit opinion. Blanchardstown Institute of Technology got a clear audit opinion. The national Economic and Social Development Office got a clear...

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

Seán Fleming: Okay, that is good to hear. Tote Ireland Limited got a clear audit opinion. Tote Arena Limited got a clear audit opinion. Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Limited got a clear audit opinion. HRI Racecourses Limited, which is an investment holding company, it is not trading and with no turnover, got a clear audit opinion. Fairyhouse Club Limited got a clear audit opinion. Leopardstown Club...

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

Seán Fleming: I say that in jest.

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

Seán Fleming: That is a good idea.

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

Seán Fleming: The National Museum of Ireland got a clear audit opinion. The Legal Services Regulatory Authority was established on 1 Oct 2016 and this is its first set of financial statements covering the 15 months to 31 December 2017. It got a clear audit opinion. The Law Reform Commission got a clear audit opinion. Oifig Chomisinéir na dTeangacha Oifigiúla got a clear audit opinion. Mary...

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

Seán Fleming: It is proposed for 14 March. The CSO is coming in for one slot and then we will try to complete our examination of the broadband programme, insofar as we can. I do not want it dragging on. Time is of the essence and there are moves afoot. The week of 23 March is a non-sitting week. The only other matter we have formally on the agenda, with a provisional date of 4 April, is the...

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

Seán Fleming: Yes. We will slot that topic in and perhaps next week we will confirm the exact topics. We will pencil in 28 March for the national paediatric hospital. In case there is any doubt, that contract was signed in 2017 so it is part of the audited statements before this committee and it is 100% within our remit. That is not a new item, it is an existing item. That is generally the work...

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

Seán Fleming: Yes, we will revisit that to make it fairer.

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

Seán Fleming: There are two matters. What I will definitely come back with is-----