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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. We will make a specific note for this issue to be dealt with in the briefing material that we receive before the meeting. The next correspondence is No. 1726B from the Department of Education and Skills regarding the transfer of properties from the religious congregations. This is connected with the correspondence from the HSE, which we did not take at the time. This gives a detailed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ensure that there is a nice photograph of the delegation in the report. We are moving on to correspondence category C. A letter has been received from Deputy Wallace with a further query regarding Project Nantes. We forwarded correspondence received from NAMA to Deputy Wallace and he has reverted with queries. We decided last week to request further details from NAMA and we will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss that separately. It is a fair point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, there is. There will be a debate on NAMA's expected terminal surplus. The members of this committee will be able to raise those points in the Chamber as well as at this committee. The Comptroller and Auditor General is seeking information. We have gone back for further information. The Comptroller and Auditor General has raised the whole issue of the section 172 declarations. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Buy back their own assets.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The essence of the section 172 declaration is to ensure no person who is connected with the debtor is involved in buying back the same assets. The Comptroller and Auditor General has commented on that. We are back to that section 172-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Would it be possible for the Comptroller and Auditor General, if appropriate, to give us a briefing note on section 172, or should we ask the parliamentary legal adviser for a briefing note on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the parliamentary legal adviser to give us a note on this item, which is cropping up all the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the internal parliamentary legal adviser to clarify the brief. This is an issue. We will try to move on. The next item on the agenda is the financial statements and accounts that have been received since the committee met on 15 November last. The only such document to be considered relates to the National University of Ireland. The old NUI is nearly wound up now. Its...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: In a reduced role. It is not over all the universities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The register for the Seanad elections is something else.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is the greatest book of fiction in Ireland. Anyway, we will come back to that one again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: For graduates.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Problem solved. It is over to you.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am only talking about the graduate panels.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is outside our remit. We will move on. We are behind.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I do not know anything about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are running a little behind time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The witnesses are coming in. There is no change in the work programme. We can come back and discuss it next week. Our next meeting will be with representatives of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. There will be a long agenda. If there are any specific issues that members want to see dealt with in the opening statement or in the briefing material that is to be...