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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Those are two issues so far. We have to deal with everything in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report as the year goes by. I am just trying to identify a few for early on. The Comptroller and Auditor General has a chapter on the oversight of approved housing bodies, but that is for the Department. The next issue we want to deal with somewhere along the line is this hepatitis C...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: This only deals with the next couple of weeks. For next week we will ask for a draft work schedule to take us into November or early December.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will have a draft until Christmas. Will many of us be here next summer? We have had a useful discussion. We are a little behind schedule, but I will-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are dealing with that with the State Claims Agency
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to it next week. We have written to the State Claims Agency on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I knew the State Claims Agency came in because it was a Statute of Limitations issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have written to the State Claims Agency, which will come back to us. We will suspend to allow the witnesses to take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are back in public session. Today, we will be dealing with Teagasc's financial statements for 2016 and 2017. We are joined by Professor Gerry Boyle, director, and Mr. Tom Doherty, chief operations officer. The representative from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is Dr. Kevin Smyth. I remind members, witnesses and those in the public Gallery to turn off all mobile...
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I now call Professor Boyle to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I thank Professor Boyle for his opening statement. I call Deputy Deering, who has 20 minutes. He is followed by Deputy Aylward, who has 15 minutes. All other speakers will have ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is not zoned.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: What date was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I saw a good few silage trailers in Laois last weekend. They are still out there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It has since improved. That is the point Professor Boyle is making.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I ask that this information be forwarded to the secretariat.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Deputies O'Connell and Burke are next, but we said that we would try to finish before the vote, so I ask them to be brief.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I want to let Deputy Burke in because we will be caught for time in a few minutes. I know time is tight.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will proceed with a few questions. The vote in the Dáil is on but I will carry on. Committee members have put their questions and I will ask a few more to complete the process. Deputy Aylward touched on the issue of fatalities. Teagasc provides agricultural advice and the farmers are its clients. I have read the report. Health and safety is mentioned on page 51, and I know Dr....
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Even though Teagasc is the body that deals with farmers on an ongoing basis, it is the Health and Safety Authority that is responsible for health and safety and investigating farm accidents where there are deaths. I heard a debate this week in the Dáil from which I understand that many agencies are involved in health and safety. Various Departments can have a stake in health and safety...
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Where was that shown in the accounts?