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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Where is that figure taken from?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am looking at page 44, the statement of financial position as at 31 December. Does cash make up many of those housing acquisition deposits and stock of houses for sale?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: In that case, the Housing Agency had approximately €14 million in cash at the end of the year, and the big change was that the Housing Agency received the €70 million.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: At what stage of the year did that come? It was not the reason for the Supplementary Estimate.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay. I think I have done enough. I wished to ask some more questions about the financial statements but we have had a long day. As witnesses will understand, we are trying to get information into the public arena in order that people will understand what is going on because there is some frustration with how long it has taken the €1.4 billion spent on housing last year to translate...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Finance Bill 2018. It is important that we have a good discussion on this significant legislation which runs to 149 pages. I will generally talk about the budget as that is what the Finance Bill is based on. However, there is a lot of small print in the Finance Bill which I hope will receive detailed scrutiny at Committee Stage. This is merely an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I congratulate the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, on his new position. Owing to his family contacts, he is very familiar with the constituency of Laois-Offaly and perhaps Kolbe Special School, Portlaoise. I hope he will take a special interest in the school. The reason I am raising the issue of this school, in particular, is that it is extraordinary. There are very...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Do not say that, please.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for his reply. I hope he is at the cusp of making some progress. He said he hopes to progress the project to architectural planning at an early stage. I have given a commitment to the parents and the teachers. I will be back to the Minister every month about this issue. I ask him to get the work started. Even when it is started, it will have to go through the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when funding will be provided for flooding relief works at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43465/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Indemnity Scheme (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 403. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to re-examine the conditions by which consultants can prescribe medicinal cannabis for persons with Dravet syndrome in such a way as to not make them personally liable for their entire treatment thereafter which understandably makes them reluctant to prescribe medicinal cannabis in these situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 404. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding providing medical treatment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43447/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 409. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Treatment Purchase Fund will approve funding for a procedure to be carried out for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43507/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 470. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43795/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 598. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason a project (details supplied) was not approved for funding under the town and village renewal scheme 2018; the reason its application was not approved; if there is a review mechanism and an appeal system in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43476/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Applications (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) will be re-examined with a view to approving the back to education allowance in view of the fact that the person was only 11 days short of the required number of days, which is an administrative rule in her Department rather than a statutory rule, and in further view of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ms Josephine Mooney, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. We will hold over the minutes until the next meeting and matters arising. The next item on the agenda is correspondence received since the last...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. We have agreed to publish it. We have not come to it but we will in a moment. It is in the correspondence list. I do not think that was the one list. We will deal with it in a moment. The next category is B - correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow-up to Committee of Public Accounts meetings and other items for publishing. A number of items were held...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over for discussion at the next meeting. We have noted it, we did have some discussion on it, but the question we must deal with next week is whether we give parliamentary privilege to publishing the full document. No. 1638 B from Mr. Martin Bourke, assistant secretary, Office of Public Works, comprising a property services agreement regarding accommodation for the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Oh God, no.