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

Seán Fleming: We asked him why the roster that had been established was allowed to be run over time, and why a new one was not in place on the appointed day.

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

Seán Fleming: We will return to the matter. The next item, No. 1917, from Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, dated 7 February 2019, renews a request to invite the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to appear before the committee in respect of the overrun at the national children's hospital. We note the request and we have agreed to invite the Secretary General. We will form the...

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

Seán Fleming: Yes, we will ask for it to be as soon as possible. The next items, Nos. 1923, 1924 and 1929, are from the Ceann Comhairle and the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality. I propose we discuss their contents briefly in private session and provide a short summary of our observations when we return to public session. The next item, No. 1925, from Professor Chris Fitzpatrick,...

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

Seán Fleming: We will wait and see.

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

Seán Fleming: We will check with the committee to ensure there is no unnecessary duplication of witnesses appearing before both committees, if they appear before either.

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

Seán Fleming: The letter relates completely to the financial aspect. He might talk to the Joint Committee on Health about co-location and the medical issues, which is fine.

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

Seán Fleming: This private individual has requested to appear in public in order that he will be satisfied that his issue will be dealt with in public. We will have to make quick contact with him because of the GDPR, but I propose that we publish the correspondence. Normally, we do not publish letters from an individual, but this is different because he wants to appear in public. If we have to seek...

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

Seán Fleming: They are not the normal accounting standards. Leopardstown Park Hospital board received a clear audit opinion. The figure for non-compliance was €799,000. We will include this topic in our periodic report. Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology received a clear audit opinion, as did the Institute of Technology Tallaght. The National Haemophilia Council...

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

Seán Fleming: The Oberstown Children's Detention Campus did not meet it in the year under review?

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

Seán Fleming: We will include a summary of many of these issues in our periodic report. The next item on the agenda is the work programme. Today we will be dealing with the Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach in considering Vote 1 - the President's Establishment and Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach. We will meet in private session to clear some items and then resume in public...

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

Seán Fleming: That is setting an example. We want to cover all Votes, whether for Áras an Uachtaráin or the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Is there a Vote for the Oireachtas Commission?

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

Seán Fleming: I am putting the Secretary General or Accounting Officer for the Oireachtas Commission on notice that he will be here to discuss its accounts. We will be comprehensive in our work as we move through the year. I put him on notice and indicate that we will set a date shortly. On 14 March we will possibly have before the committee representatives of the Central Statistics Office. That...

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

Seán Fleming: We have not yet received a response.

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

Seán Fleming: We are all keeping an eye on it. The Deputy will have seen the change in the format of the minutes that we have introduced this year. There is a column on the right hand side opposite each item of correspondence in which it is indicated that we have noted and published it and that there are further items to be followed up. We have a tracking method which we use in the producing the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: In this session we will be examining the 2017 Appropriation Accounts for the President's Establishment, Vote 1, and the Department of the Taoiseach, Vote 2. We are joined from the Department of the Taoiseach by Mr. Martin Fraser, Secretary General; Mr. Denis Breen, head of corporate affairs; and Ms Geraldine Butler, finance officer. From the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform we...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I now invite Mr. Fraser, as Accounting Officer for the Department of An Taoiseach and for the President's Establishment, to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Fraser. Before I call the first speaker, I acknowledge receipt of Mr. Fraser's opening statement, briefing note and the annual report for the Department of An Taoiseach for 2017. I also want to acknowledge receipt of information in respect of Vote 1, the President's Establishment and the opening statement in that regard. I further acknowledge receipt of the document, The...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is it that one of the sums is part of the €5.03 million.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will state it correctly. We have received a summary. Net voted expenditure in 2017 was €3.609 million. Allied services expenditure, including the amount from the Central Fund, was €5.039 million, thus giving total expenditure of €8.918 million. The figure includes the salary and pension payments of the President and the particular allowance referred to previously....

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will explain it for the benefit of the public because it relates to the President's Establishment. There is a payment of €894,000 from the Central Fund to the Vote. It includes the allowances for the President, pension payments to former office holders and what is called the 1938 allowance paid under a statutory instrument.