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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is a whole different animal.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: My rationale is that information I have sought regarding Tipperary Education and Training Board from the Department in parliamentary questions over the past month has not been provided. I have been engaging with the Secretary General of the Department to get better answers because many of them were not acceptable. My first request for information related to multiple issues, including the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I know what it is. I am being a little-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: That is the issue I was about to raise. Basically, the non-pay side of the ETBI is funded through contributions from the individual ETBs.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: That means the ETBs must provide funding to make that happen. On the basis of what the Comptroller and Auditor General said, it is up to the committee as to how it responds to my second request. The Department will probably be able to answer questions on ETBI but I insist that we bring in representatives of Tipperary Education and Training Board.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: Absolutely. I could not agree more.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: Work programme.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: We spoke in our private meeting recently about an engagement with the National Treatment Purchase Fund and Nursing Homes Ireland. We need to decide on the structure, format and a possible date for this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: Before we go to Deputy Cullinane, I want to ask the Comptroller and Auditor General about the financial statements of the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: We need to arrive at a rationale for why we are bringing in Nursing Homes Ireland.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: We have the advice, it is a matter of setting a time for him to come into us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I fully agree that we need to do this. We have agreed it already. We need to set the criteria or the question of the areas we will examine. Before we do that, we probably need to see the legal advice. We are not here next week, but early in the week we return, we will set a date for a short briefing here on legal advice. We will take the legal advice on the Tuesday and have the normal...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: The legal advisers do not normally circulate their advices, they prefer to brief in the room.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I presume so.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: Very interesting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I do. I got it straight away before the Deputy even said it. Is that agreed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: Is the committee agreed on the way forward? Agreed. The committee's work programme is more or less concluded. We will return to it on Thursday week. If there is no other business we will suspend and allow the witnesses from the HSE to come in.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: Our meeting today will have two parts. The principal reason for this meeting is the examination of chapter 19 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report 2016, management and oversight of grants to health agencies. The committee agreed in private session on Tuesday to allow an hour today for questions regarding a matter discussed with the HSE previously. A HSE-commissioned report has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Bodies Membership (26 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: 123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the persons from his Department who are attending the chiefs of police conference 2017 in Philadelphia; his views on whether the number of persons attending is excessive; the costs for same; if other persons are attending at a cost to the exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45507/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry (19 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: 5. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the Charleton liaison committee should continue to be funded; and his further views on whether the liaison committee is working equally in the best interests of all gardaí involved in the disclosures tribunal. [44293/17]