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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will return to that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: The next item of correspondence is No. 1839B from the HSE about Console staff. It corrects the wording of a previous letter and whether it referred to a person who was previously employed, an employed person or existing employees. It is only a technical question. We will note and publish it. No. 1846B is from the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills providing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is called waste tourism.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: This committee rightly went into the function and role of the Department. We are definitely publishing that and I believe some other committee or individual Deputies should certainly take it up. We have done our job by publishing this. We are not delving into the landfills again.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will move on. However, I want to clarify an issue that I might have glossed over. I say to those interested in the recycling issue the news is not half as good as I read out a moment ago. The table covers the 2.7 million tonnes of waste in the country in the year. Recycling was 34% and recycling involved in compost and digestion was 7%. In fact the recycling was only 41%. It goes on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Grand. I will finish on this item. Members will indulge me on the issue of the RTÉ2 +1 channel. We have brilliant news. The letter states:In June 2018, RTÉ made a formal request to the Department for the extension of RTE One+ 1 service and the introduction of a new service, RTE2 +1. The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) was asked to conduct a Sectoral Impact Assessment on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Most of this relates to communications and those type of issues aside from the waste which is part of our broadband discussions and that whole debate because they affect that area and they operate-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will publish it and hold it over for discussion. We will keep it on the agenda for discussion but we will publish it in the meantime because people will be interested in that document. The next item of correspondence is No. 1852B from Mr. Ciarán Breen, providing information requested by the committee regarding the total of all payments for compensation and the percentage of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: No, I will come to that in just a moment because many people have never been at a Committee of Public Accounts meeting and they want a little bit of guidance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are. I want to deal with one item on the work programme and then I will come to it. The next item of correspondence is No. 1844C from Mr. Sean Bolger, CEO and chairman of Imagine Communications Group, accepting the invitation to attend the meeting of the committee on the national broadband plan. No. 1858C is from an individual, requesting the committee to make inquiries on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: There was.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: No, they are coming back to us. We have asked for information and they have updated the panel. Then it should expire and this particular one was a very specific personal matter so we will not go into that but we will refer it to Deputy Cannon. We will tell the individual that we have done so because the Committee of Public Accounts does not have a role in his particular case. The next...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have invited the hospital board, the HSE's chief link in the chain and the Secretary General in the Department of Health. We need to get them out of the way. We agreed last week to write to the Office of Government Procurement, which may have a more direct role in it than the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It will set policy but it is up to the Secretary General. He is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will hold over the financial statements received since our last meeting before Christmas until the next meeting but there is one item on the work programme that I want members to think about. Several companies from the private sector are coming in to talk to us on the broadband issue. They are all asking what the process is, what they should say, what the issues are and what the topic is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: This morning's session is specifically on UL, Sligo IT, Waterford IT-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: They will all be together. The Department has sent in a long statement but it has been told to summarise it in the public session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask for copies to be circulated. There are a number of opening statements and we want to hear them all in the next session because somebody might choose to only talk about UL and somebody else might choose to only talk about Sligo IT so we have to get all of them out there so we can have a logical discussion afterwards.