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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It will not happen between now and St. Patrick's Day. The next point is that the periodic report for the committee's work from September to December is due and the secretariat hopes to circulate its work on that electronically tomorrow to the members of committee. For people watching proceedings, that will not be a report of the Committee of Public Accounts that any committee member has an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is next Tuesday at 11 a.m. to discuss the periodic report from September to December. When we come to discuss it here with the working document from the secretariat, from then on it becomes the members' document, once we start giving our input, and there will be no further email versions of it issued until the day it is published because these documents have leaked in the past. Members...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Not at the moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Chairman will take the blame on that one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. There are three Dáil terms.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We do the three Dáil periods - from September to December, from January to about Easter and from Easter to the summer. It would be too far back if we let it run for six months, the reports would be too large and people would not pay heed. It ties in with the Dáil's sitting period.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: No, we do not have a researcher either. We have many staff who are helping us draft the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay, we need a researcher. We will return to it in private session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, possibly. It could be a matter for the members to discuss and agree on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I note the suggestion and we will return to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Not everyone might agree to a Tuesday meeting immediately.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have received a letter. If there are aspects of the letter that were not adequately addressed, I will examine them with the secretariat. Without looking at it, I know that answers to at least three questions indicated that information would follow. We want to receive that information, given that it has been indicated that we will receive it. We always write to witnesses to seek further...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We can still schedule it and the correspondence-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will put the matter on the work schedule but before we do that, we have a duty. We have asked questions and received replies, and we have a duty to analyse those replies. The committee has always done that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I refer to the whole committee. I have stated that three items of information are to follow and we need to have them promptly. We must highlight any issues we consider inadequately addressed, even where replies have been given. Why wait three, five or six weeks until the Accounting Officer appears to tell him this? We want to have the information. We are replying to the Department of Finance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will hold the meeting but we have a duty to examine the correspondence we have received before that meeting. It will not delay the meeting because that will be a few weeks away in any event. At the next session, there will be a date for the meeting, while the correspondence will be addressed in the interim. I propose that we go into private session before we resume in public session...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: In this session we are dealing with the 2015 financial statements of Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board. In the afternoon we will look at housing issues in connection with the appropriation account of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government when we will be joined by representatives of the Irish Council for Social Housing and the approved housing body interim...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy and call Mr. Ó Foghlú to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Ó Foghlú. I note that his opening statement deals with Kildare and Wicklow ETB and goes on in the second half to developments in the sector which have occupied a lot of time in the Committee of Public Accounts in previous years. Some of the issues to which we referred have been dealt with in the opening statement, so it is good to get the feedback on the broader issue....