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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I think a Private Members' Bill was published yesterday by Deputy Jack Chambers in respect of the Statute of Limitations not applying in the thalidomide case. The issue has been raised outside of the committee also.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we will get detailed clarification. I think the association phoned my office directly as well, and I spoke to someone from the agency on the phone during the summer also. Next, we have No. 1509 Cfrom Deputy Catherine Murphy, dated 7 August 2018 requesting the committee to include the national broadband plan and ICT programmes at the Department of Communications, Climate Action and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: And the lessons learnt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: And put on our work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I think we agree to put the Department and the investment in broadband onto the work programme in terms of lessons learnt from the past and where we are going. The Government programme divides the country up into various areas, including what is known as an amber area that will be subject to the new contract where there is only one bidder. My experience is that private companies who provide...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: There are two previous reports concerning broadband that go back some years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will get them and circulate them in due course before we come to discuss the issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are only finishing our discussion of the correspondence. We have agreed to stop at that. That is enough heavy duty work for one morning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next matter is No. 1511 C dated 9 August, and No. 1556 C dated 31 August in relation to the audit processes in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. The individual raises issues about the opportunities afforded to organisations to "get their accounts right". The correspondent refers to a number of different versions of Dundalk IT accounts during the 2015 to 2016 audit. Does...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Did that relate to special reports, in particular?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is a serious matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The office has good legal authority to audit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write back to the individual who wrote to us, giving that individual a copy of the transcript of the discussion that took place.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. 1522 is from an individual on the insurance costs for local authorities. I raised this matter earlier as part of the previous discussion on the letter from the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the value for money report carried out on the insurance costs of local authorities and the operation of the IPB. A report was published but it has not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a previous report. At this stage, if the individual wants to take up a policy issue on the matter, we refer him to the Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport for whatever action it deems appropriate. No. 1533 is a matter from an individual dated 20 August 2018 on a query from the committee on foot of our correspondence regarding the timely presentation of accounts. This...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The National Treatment Purchase Fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write directly to the HSE for a detailed response to the issue with regard to that West Kerry Community Hospital. The issue of the private patient is part of that but we want a comprehensive response on the issues raised in the letter. No. 1589 is from an individual regarding the Waterford Youth Training and Education Centre, WYTEC, in Waterford city. This is an employment issue....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It came from the Chartered Accounts Voluntary Advice centre. It is a group of chartered accounts, which provides free advice and took it up with us, but the personal information should not have been sent to us, which is why we are not circulating it. No. 1521 is from Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice, dated 14 August, forwarding correspondence requesting the committee to make an inquiry with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It boils down to this. The charity provides a normal volume of incontinence wear. If somebody has a particular problem, it says the allocation is two per day and a person might require six, which it says is above and beyond the normal requirement, which means it is additional medical care and the person is being billed for it. It appears that has happened in this case.