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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will get that information from the health committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will invite representatives of all four layers to appear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the OPW. Would it be better to write to the Accounting Officer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the OPW and the Clerk of the Dáil for an update.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: That will be dealt with by correspondence. I wish to complete the brief discussion on the work programme. We have provisionally suggested that the paediatric hospital board appear on 31 January.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Does the National Development Finance Agency a role in that regard? I thought it examined all Government capital projects involving contracts costing more than €20 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: In addition to the four groups we have invited in, we are writing directly to the Department and the National Development Finance Agency, which is a branch of the NTMA in respect of their role and advice in this issue, which they may or may not have had. I do not think we will get six witnesses here. We will write to the Department and the National Development Finance Agency and say we want...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is very interesting and there is quite a range of companies there to help us because we do not have any technical expertise in this area. Our job is to look after the public purse. The National Children's Hospital started off at a couple of hundred million and is now €1.7 billion. This broadband is already at a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: I think the Committee of Public Accounts has to watch the cost of the broadband decisions that are being made and commitments that will tie the taxpayer. The scale of the investment in the national broadband plan is at least double what is being proposed in the National Children's Hospital. If the Committee of Public Accounts were to say it is only €4 billion and we are not going to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am talking about the €3.4 billion and getting value for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Please speak through the Chair.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Deputy MacSharry is speaking.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are only dealing with the money.
- 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.