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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.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes, that is the last meeting before Christmas.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Department of Education and Skills. We will ask it to bring CIÉ people along.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Is there a separate fund for school transport? The funding of Bus Éireann comes from different sources. There is free travel, the subsidy-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: The issue that is always raised is that the funding for school transport is cross-subsidising other services, or vice versa. I do not know and it is very hard to find out.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: When the Comptroller and Auditor General was doing his report, did he deal only with the Department of Education and Skills?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy did not go to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Obviously, the Department of Education and Skills is the line Department for the Vote.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Department of Education and Skills will be here and it will have a representative from Bus Éireann with it. We know the Minister's nominees on the board have a fiduciary duty to the board, not to us. I presume there is a liaison officer between the Department and Bus Éireann.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is the person we need.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I agree. It is agreed that we will have the three groups here. That concludes matters for that meeting. We will go into private session now to deal with a number of matters before the witnesses take their seats.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We have an extensive agenda. We will examine the 2017 annual report of the Comptroller Auditor General and appropriation accounts: Vote 37 - Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection; chapter 11 - regularity of social welfare payments; chapter 12 - JobPath employment activation service; chapter 13 - actuarial review of the Social Insurance Fund; chapter 14 - overpayments of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy and invite Mr. McKeon to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McKeon for his opening statement. It was a long and comprehensive statement, but there were a lot of chapters in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, so covering all that ground explains why it was exceptionally long. The first speaker is Deputy Cullinane, followed by Deputies Burke, MacSharry and Catherine Murphy. The first speaker has 20 minutes, the second speaker...