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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. I am moving on. The policy issue in respect of the need for a national broadband plan is beyond dispute. Nobody in their right mind will debate that policy. We are talking about the implementation and the cost of carrying out that policy, not the policy itself. It is sacrosanct that we need the broadband plan. In respect of the processes, controls, implementation, value, cost and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Have they been published yet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is six weeks away yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: On 28 February we are dealing with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in respect of the housing issue. As well as the Department, we are going to have witnesses from the Irish Council of Social Housing. A lot of this work is done through social housing and the approved housing body interim regulatory committee. There is a voluntary regulator who has no statutory...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the CCMA about that. We will deal with the housing and central government funding separately. The CCMA personnel may change from one part of the meeting to the other. We will work that out. The last item is the meeting with the Department of Finance on 7 March. Any other items for the work programme can be parked until next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Today, we will examine the Appropriation Accounts for 2017 for Vote 21, for the Prison Service. We are dealing specifically with prisons and will address the justice Vote at the next meeting. We are joined by the Accounting Officer for the Department of Justice and Equality, who is also Accounting Office for the Prison Service. This is Mr. O'Driscoll's first time here in his new role. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: That is just a month ago. I wish Ms McCaffrey the best. We are joined by Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll, Secretary General, Mr. Michael Flahive, assistant secretary, Mr. Seamus Clifford, principal officer, Mr. Noel Dowling, principal officer, and Ms Anne Marie Treacy, assistant principal officer. From the Irish Prison Service, we are joined by Ms Caron McCaffrey, director general, Mr. Don Culliton,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: We will now move on to the members of the committee. Deputy Farrell has 20 minutes and Deputy Jonathan O'Brien has 15 minutes. The following speakers have ten minutes each: Deputy MacSharry, Deputy Kelly, Deputy Catherine Murphy and Deputy Connolly. At least six members want to get in before the divisions in the Dáil. Even if a member is mid-sentence at the end of their ten or 15...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: The Deputy has three minutes left.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Other members might pick it up.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: I thank the Deputy. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien has 15 minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: We will write to the State Claims Agency to seek that information. Ms McCaffrey has mentioned that there are more than 1,600 cases. When representatives of the State Claims Agency were in here recently, they had a list of mass actions. I do not think they are called "class actions" in Ireland. Given that payments are already being made to people, has the principle been conceded in most of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Are the cases being fought case by case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Why has the Irish Prison Service paid out some?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: So the Irish Prison Service has not paid out any awards yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: In relation to the slopping out, and that means no-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: In fact, all of the payments in relation to those large number of cases only relate-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: -----legal costs to date.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: So no prisoner has got a penny yet out of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Yes.