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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. That is good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: A person's duty to the board was referred to last week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Who is the best person to help the committee with a summary of this point? Would the Comptroller and Auditor General be able to do it? I assume it is relevant to his audit process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask that you circulate it to members as soon as is practicable in the coming days. I was confused about that role within a company. We have covered the point for the moment and I do not want to go into the nitty-gritty of it now. At our last meeting we cleared, noted and agreed the minutes of the meetings of 17 January, 22 January and 24 January. The meeting of 17 January was with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, when we receive the terms of reference, we intend to consider whether they will lead to the publication of a report or whether they will be written in such a way that it may not be possible to issue a report, and that is important.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: In summary, if the terms of reference have been made available, we want to obtain them by lunchtime. Otherwise, we should be told. The HSE has committed to reverting to the committee on the matter, after which we can discuss it later in the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is referring to No. 1918, from Ms Rhonda Evans of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, which provides a note on the children's hospital costs and the list of independent and corporate reports. It is to be noted and published. The Deputy is right that there should be clarification. On the Linesight report, there is no outline of the cost attached to the schedule...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: What is the Deputy seeking?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The report and the cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is fine. We will move on. The next items of correspondence, category C, relate to private individuals and other correspondence. Item No. 1916, from an individual, dated 31 January 2019, concerns the selection process followed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to create a panel for election observer rosters. As we have previously noted, the subject matter is not within...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, the committee has addressed the matter a couple of times. The correspondent has written to the committee a number of times.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will check and if there has been no response, we will write to it again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The issue is that the previous board was allowed to lapse without the new group being in place to take over.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It was carried over its original timescale.
- 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.