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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We should also ask whether when the report was presented minutes were taken of the presentation and the discussion on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was a slide presentation but there must have been some discussion on that. Perhaps a minute was taken.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, those that were relevant to that. No. 1748 is correspondence received from the Revenue Commissioners and dated 26 November providing clarification. We spotted a wrong decimal point of a matter of 100 million in one of their letters - a part of our periodic report - and they have corrected the figures. We will publish a report next week and the correct figures will be in it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. I think the amount in dispute was €7.01 million but it should have been counted in hundred millions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have the correct figures for our periodic report. It shows we are watching carefully. No. 1749 from the Higher Education Authority is dated 26 November and provides information requested for our forthcoming periodic report. It is a table relating to the Munster university costs. On the second page attached, it says the committee was looking for a breakdown of direct and indirect costs....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: That was No. 1749.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have just covered it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We asked for a breakdown of the costs between the direct costs and the indirect costs. We wanted that for the periodic report and the HEA has separated it between direct and indirect costs. That is all it has done. We have not gone any further.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask again for further.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will conclude based on the information we have to publish a report, but we can include a sentence to say we have now requested a further breakdown and await it at the time of publication.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will put-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We always do. Next week, we will go through a draft work programme for the January-February period and we will have that on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is out there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It will be in the new year as there is only a fortnight of the session left. We will go through our work programme for the new year next week and try to sign off on priorities from the committee's point of view and the sequence in which we want to deal with them. That is noted and published. Sorry, it is not. The letter was from an individual and we can discuss it in the context of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: As I say, we will send them that schedule and we will keep at them to get it fully completed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We move to the next item, the accounts and statements received since our previous meeting, of which there are six to be reviewed. On the Social Insurance Fund, there is a clear audit opinion. The report deals with the estimated level of irregular payments in respect of certain Social Insurance Fund schemes which are material. We will be discussing this at our meeting this afternoon, so we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are writing directly to the chairperson of the board, whose responsibility it is to ensure there is a contract in place for the chief executive, asking him to explain the position and to regularise this, and to give us the reason this has continued for all of those years. The next is the office of the regulator of the national lottery, for which there is a clear audit opinion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We were never given a figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We note that. The next item is the national lottery fund, which has a clear audit opinion. The next is the export guarantee account, for which there was no turnover for 2017. It has a clear audit opinion. Next, the National Training Fund was established to raise the skills of those in employment, to give jobseekers relevant skills and to facilitate lifelong learning, and it has received a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, including the broadband plan.