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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Buckley is familiar with who he is dealing with on that point. I want to thank the witnesses from the OPW and the Comptroller and Auditor General for their attendance today and for the material provided. There was a little bit of a mix-up about information but we have it now. It shows the value of being able to check back with the office during the course of a long meeting and getting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (11 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when transport will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41621/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Data (11 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 74. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the waiting times for persons to receive free legal aid in each of the law centres throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41651/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Fees (9 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated amount it would cost in a full year if the passport application fee was reduced to €60 for persons over 75 years of age based on 2017 figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41021/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (9 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount it would cost in 2019 if the ancillary grant rate increased by €5.50 per pupil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41019/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (9 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding will be approved for the refurbishment of a Garda unit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41020/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (9 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 304. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgical procedure will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services Provision (9 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it would cost in a full year if 350 extra midwives were recruited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41023/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (9 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for appealing decisions on State pension (contributory) applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41022/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: The committee is joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Seamus McCarthy, as permanent witness to the committee. He is also joined today by Mr. John Crean, deputy director of audit. I record apologies received from Deputies David Cullinane, Marc MacSharry, Alan Farrell and Catherine Murphy. The committee will now go into private session for a few moments to deal with a couple of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We had a brief discussion in private session which was substantially connected with our work programme. The next item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 25 September. Are they agreed to? Agreed. The next item is correspondence. No. 1610B is correspondence received from the Department of Health on the implementation of the Scally report and was circulated to members yesterday....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will come back to it. Representatives of the Dormant Accounts Fund were with us last year and it was one of the most pathetic meetings I had ever attended. Commitments were made to concepts and projects, but there was not a sheet of paper to be had and projects never happened. Money was locked up as part of a concept that had passed its sell-by date. Responsibility for the fund had...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: That lack of preparedness meant that proposals were submitted but there were no details behind them. They were not really proposals but concepts or notions. Somebody had a notion about spending €2 million on a concept which was approved and the money set aside. However, nothing ever happened and the money was locked away.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes, there is. That is the sad part. We will definitely come back to the matter which we will be highlighting in a future periodic report. The correspondence received from Mr. Costello will help us in coming to conclusions. The next item held over was No. 1510B, correspondence receivedfrom Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, enclosing a minute...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I do not think we agreed to publish it the last day; I think we agreed to hold it over. This is one of the items we discussed in private session. I call Deputy Kelly to summarise where we are going with this letter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Connolly indicated.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will forward this letter to the OPW. We discussed it in private session. We might redact a few words because of the parliamentary privilege issue, but, by and large, the substance of the letter will be published during the course of the day by the Committee of Public Accounts, subject to minor redactions. We will send it then to the OPW and ask it to send us whatever report is referred to.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay. We have that. We will ask the secretariat to communicate that to the OPW in advance of next week's meeting. We are conscious there is a Comptroller and Auditor General chapter in his report relating to a particular matter dealing with the OPW and the Department of Health, and we will come to our work programme shortly. The next item is No. 1595 C from an individual dated 22 September...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy will fill us in on the background.