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Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: One of the witnesses made a good point on the MANs and the private fibre networks as well as the mobile network. It was stated that "all existing and planned commercial investment should be taken into consideration prior to any State intervention into a commercial market". We might advise the Minister to find out what exactly is in any contract before he signs it. There might be fewer...

Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is correct.

Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: If we turn back the clock two years, there were 850,000 houses involved. The numbers have almost halved now. That is an observation and not a conclusion. We have now completed our-----

Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes, please do.

Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That complaint was stated here today and we asked for a copy of that correspondence. Mr. McCarthy will be aware of that. We will also contact the Department separately. I do know if it has been requested already under freedom of information legislation. I doubt it.

Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: There was at least public acknowledgement today as to the identity of the complainant.

Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: It was stated earlier and I will not repeat the name. It is on the record.

Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank all of the witnesses for coming and I apologise that the meeting has continued so late into the day. It was a long day and I thank the witnesses for bearing with us. Is it agreed that the clerk requests any follow-up documentation and carries out any agreed actions arising from the meeting? Agreed. We will now adjourn. If confirmed, we will be meeting representatives of the...

Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Bill 2017 introduced by my colleagues, Deputies Barry Cowen and Dara Calleary. Essentially, this Bill, if passed will ensure an automatic Comptroller and Auditor General review of capital projects is triggered where costs rise above a set amount, which amount will be determined during later Stages of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have a quorum. We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ms Maureen Mulligan, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputies Deering and Farrell. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 31 January, which was our last meeting. Are those minutes...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. It is displayed on the screen. We wrote well in advance to the National Development Finance Agency and the Office of Government Procurement to ascertain their roles in respect of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. Depending on the response, we were to decide whether to meet them. We had sought the information well in advance of the meeting and received this reply...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. He was a director since 2 August 2013. The hospital board and the Government contracts committee, of which the Office of Government Procurement provides the chair and secretary, commenced discussions on the matter in May 2014.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: It was a ministerial appointment, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will make one observation of which I want people to take account for a moment. We need to invite the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the management and control of major capital projects, including the children's hospital. If we write to him specifically on the children's hospital, he is utterly within his rights to say he is not the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Otherwise, he would refuse to attend this committee as he is not the Accounting Officer for that project. He has a broader responsibility and I think that is the invitation we have to extend. He should not refuse that invitation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That he had a fiduciary duty as a director.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. There is a liaison officer between the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Health, who often sits here during meetings. There will be two lines of contact.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Correct.