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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I know we will not go through them individually. I believe I saw somewhere yesterday that 6,000 staff are employed in the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Only a fraction of that number work in the housing sections of all the local authorities combined.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Some of them are kind of dormant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have no intention of getting into the plans and concepts of the individual approved housing bodies. I am interested in the funding the Department is giving approved housing bodies to do the job.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: For next week we will ask the secretariat to prepare a programme. The big issue in respect of housing - no one has mentioned it yet even though we mention it every day in this House - is the issue of homelessness. Do we keep that funding for homelessness? There is €109 million support for homelessness in 2019. We cannot do everything on the one day if we want to deal with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is something else for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform relating to pension contributions to the Exchequer. Is that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: That needs to be addressed with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform when its officials come in. That is on the list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is the one I mentioned, and it concerns the Revenue Commissioners. People would benefit from a public discussion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will try to schedule for officials from the Revenue Commissioners to come in as promptly as possible. If anyone has any other comments-----
- 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.