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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is in category C.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is hard to follow. We have to separate the numbers between the three sections.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: My note lists it as correspondence in category C, to which we will come in a moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I know. It happens. No. 1595C was held over. No. 1601C is correspondence, dated 21 September 2018, received from an individual about wards of court. The correspondent has contacted the committee on a number of occasions. I can update committee members on where we are on the issue of wards of court. The lady who has corresponded with us has also been in touch with the justice...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It will know all about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: They are valid for the committee's meeting today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can deal with that matter during the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Its legislative requirement is to keep costs to a minimum and then we give out when it is not generous. The Oireachtas has told it to keep costs down. That is the other side. That is its legislative mandate, but it is for the agency to answer. The Deputy can raise the matter with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I stand corrected.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: My focus was too narrow. It has a broader focus and I accept the correction. We can deal with the issue shortly. No. 1694C is correspondence, dated 19 October 2018, received from an individual who alleges that some hospitals are putting pressure on patients to use their private health insurance in availing of publicly available services. The individual is asking the committee to deal...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will go back through the previous transcript and see whether we asked for specific follow-up infomration on that day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will follow up the matter. No. 1695C is correspondence, dated 25 October 2018, received from Deputy John Lahart requesting the committee to make inquiries about procurement by the HSE in the engagement of two companies to provide services. The Deputy has asked the committee to request the Comptroller and Auditor General to report on whether the HSE and the National Ambulance Service...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy suggesting we return the letter to the person who sent it to us and ask them to rewrite it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will not circulate it. We will ask the secretariat to say the committee has decided not to circulate it because of that reason and send it back to the person in question. If they want to write to us without items such as those in the letter, we will happily accept a letter without those issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, rather than mentioning names.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is a good suggestion. Nos. 1596 C, 1597 C and 1604 C are pieces of correspondence from an individual who is alleging cover up by senior HSE and Tusla staff regarding retrospective allegations of abuse and with regard to his own employment. The correspondence refers to specific individuals and contains a considerable amount of personal information relating to the individual and his...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will hold this over in case anyone wants to examine that correspondence and come back to it next week. No. 1692 C is a copy of correspondence sent to the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General from an anonymous correspondent, dated 18 October 2018, regarding governance issues, control failures and misuse of public funds and employment matters relating to the last interim chief...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The HSE and the State Claims Agency are here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: They are here today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The HSE and the State Claims Agency will appear before us to deal with CervicalCheck.