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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: I would have thought before I arrived today that maybe the OPW costs included the costs of much of the entertaining, functions and people being invited to very important functions in Áras an Uachtaráin. This note seems to suggest that the hospitality for the 20,000 visitors in 2017 was met from the Central Fund. Which is it? Does Mr. McCarthy know?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: So would I.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: Perhaps it is included in this allowance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: It is not a matter to which we will come back in the next couple of weeks. On the allowance which was mentioned earlier and which is referred to under emoluments and allowances as part of the Central Fund payment, the Áras an Uachtaráin website states that there is - from the Central Fund - a payment in respect of hospitality for 20,000 visitors. Perhaps there is a relationship,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: As I said, the Áras an Uachtaráin website states that €800,000 of that figure is for its staff in Áras an Uachtaráin. Some of this might relate to that entertainment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: Yes. The website gives the impression that there are payments in respect of hospitality for the 20,000 visitors to Áras an Uachtaráin and that these are paid for from the Central Fund. It is linking it to that. Even though it is not audited, it appears to link it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: The Áras puts it on its website. We will take it as accurate if it puts it up on its website. I call Deputy Kelly, who has not yet had an opportunity to contribute. Members who want to speak in the second round should indicate in the following sequence: Deputy Connolly; Deputy Aylward; and Deputy MacSharry.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: I call Deputies Connolly, Aylward and MacSharry for a quick second round.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: Who is appointed Accounting Officer is a decision of the Government. Years ago, it used to be the Secretary General of the Department of Finance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: A few years ago the Government, as it is entitled to do, changed it from the Secretary General of the Department of Finance to the Secretary General of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: We might take it up with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: Before I call Mr. McCarthy, Deputy O'Connell has a brief point. We are wrapping up now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy has indicated. This will be the final comment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: The Oireachtas does.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: For the record, as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts I have been selected-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: -----for an audit for the second time in two consecutive years. There is some random process in here.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: We have gleaned some information. This meeting was a useful exercise. Perhaps it should have been done several times by previous Committees of Public Accounts. We have learned one lesson. The Vote is an issue we will not neglect in future years. It is an issue to which we will return. We are not asking Mr. Fraser to send any information to us at this point Any question that was not...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (25 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: 285. To ask the Minister for Health when improved services will be allocated under the HSE disability services to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38410/18]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined today by Ms Georgina O'Mahoney, deputy director of audit. We have received apologies from Deputy Pat Deering. We have received at least 80 items of correspondence, which is considerable, so I hope the committee can agree on them. I sent out a draft timetable...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I intended to propose that, aside from the minutes, we move straight to the work programme, which includes those urgent items. There are three items that could be dealt with next week. One is the issue of Vote 1 - President's Establishment, which is very time sensitive with an election around the corner. The second item is the issue of CervicalCheck, on which there is correspondence with...