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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it was one of the ETBs the committee highlighted a year and a half ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will now examine the work programme on the screen. We wish to discuss some of the correspondence received in respect of the national children's hospital. We will not have a lengthy discussion on the matter now because there is nothing major. The key issue is that we know who is appearing before the committee later in the meeting. Next week, we have arranged a session on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That was published yesterday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will definitely invite the chairman of the current board and the chief executive. They will be the two key people. They will be here next week. We did not invite the former chief executive. He is not there now. We know he said here on the record that he would come when the report was completed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It has been referred to the Garda Síochána. The Thorn report-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: They will.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will hold over discussion on that. Departmental officials will be here. The Comptroller and Auditor General might wish to make a quick comment. As of now it is on our agenda for next Thursday unless the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform appears instead, in which case we will reschedule it as urgently as possible thereafter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will hold over discussion on that until the meeting with it, which will happen very quickly - either next Thursday or soon thereafter. We will not go through the work programme. Members can see the gist of it and we have discussed it previously. Before we complete this issue, at the last meeting Deputy Kelly asked about the reporting obligations of directors of State bodies to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask him to summarise it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: To clarify, it is possible to have a State company that is a company and a State body that is just-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: There is a big distinction between the two.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Kelly raised this the last day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We wrote to him for clarification. I do not think we specifically invited him. We wanted to see the reply in writing before making a decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will double-check that. We did not formally agree a work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We asked Mr. Robert Watt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I have clarified the position. We indicated to him that he would be required to attend but we did not specify a date yet. He has been informed he will be required to attend.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, a copy should be sent to him in the meantime.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will send him the circular. We will probably spend a few minutes dealing with the hospital board issue because, as I said, I have hundreds-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are finished with the work programme. We are dealing with all of the correspondence that I referred to earlier. We note them all. We should have a quick discussion on this as we cannot spend all morning on it.