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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: It might not be quite the same topic, but we have written to the State Claims Agency to identify the number of hospitals on its books in the context of material cases and the cost of the reviews.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Representatives from the State Claims Agency will be before the committee at its next meeting to discuss medical negligence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. The State Claims Agency has a system for monitoring and recording all of those. It is the national incident management system, NIMS. This is an issue to which we will return when the representatives from the State Claims Agency appear before us in a fortnight to discuss medical negligence. In the meantime, I have given an undertaking to follow up on this matter. I will communicate...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I will meet the family because I met them during the summer.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: There is a specific issue, which we are dealing with, and there is also a broader issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will keep both alive. No. 1667 B is correspondence from Ms Katherine Licken, Secretary General of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, in response to a request made by the committee for information regarding Galway's designation as European Capital of Culture for 2020, including the new structures and plans for the money that has been allocated and the service level...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: A commitment has been given that the performance delivery agreement will be in place with the Department by the end of October, which is next week. We will ask to have a copy of it by 6 November, in advance of our next meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will ask for that to be with us in advance of our next meeting. That is agreed. No. 1672 B is correspondence from Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, president of National University of Ireland Galway, providing information requested by the committee on non-competitive procurement to the value of €5.2 million and severance payments and out-of-office leave payroll costs...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: In a moment. G4S Secure Solutions Ireland Ltd. was paid €373,302 without competitive procurement. That is extraordinary. Tomkins and Co. was paid €241,074, Micromail Limited was paid €208,989, Core Computer Consultants Ltd. was paid €180,100 and Swimworld was paid €127,980 without competitive procurement. I know there are not many procurement options for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Some 13 items have been identified that did not meet procurement requirements and the amount of money involved was over €100,000 in each case. The report details the actions at the end of it. The covering letter says it is attaching the request to the Excel format together with background explanation details as furnished to the Comptroller and Auditor General and that it is styled as...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will come back to that because there is quite a bit of information there and we will not delay this morning's meeting with it. No. 1673 B is correspondence received from Jackie Maguire, chairperson of the County and City Management Association, CCMA, dated 22 October 2018, which has declined our invitation to attend today’s meeting on a voluntary basis to assist us in our...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: The chief executives of the local authorities would not have any regulatory or supervisory role with the approved housing bodies. They go to the Department directly. Their documents have to be approved, and shown to be consistent, by the local authority but the gap in the regulation of the approved housing bodies is in legislation. There is a-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: They are doing it on a voluntary basis.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. We will write back to CCMA because we need the CEOs, as very senior public servants who have a key role in delivering houses, to assist the Oireachtas. One would expect that they would see the merit in that. We accept that legally they are not under the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts but just because they are not legally obliged to come in here is no reason they cannot...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is the main subject of the meeting for the rest of the day. No. 1675 B is correspondence received from Mr. Pat Haran, clerk to the Joint Committee on Health dated 19 October 2018, regarding the report undertaken by Dr. Scally in relation to the CervicalCheck screening programme. We will note and publish this. This is an effort to ensure the work of the Joint Committee on Health, which...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will write again to get that. No. 1669 C is correspondence received from Deputy Catherine Murphy dated 19 October 2018, regarding the extension of the contract for the maintenance of the metropolitan area network by Enet. Would the Deputy like to comment on that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: In the meantime, will we ask for a detailed note from the Department on it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Who is Enet?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: How does the Deputy want us to proceed? Does she want us to do anything in the meantime, like include it on the work programme as part of our examination of broadband?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will include it as part of our work programme under the broadband topic which we will be dealing with soon. That completes the correspondence to be considered today. Three financial statements and accounts have been received since the last meeting. All three, from An Bord Iascaigh Mhara, An Bord Bia and the Heritage Fund, received clear audit reports. The financial statements and...