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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: It is a medal or a token. We have been dealing specifically with Mr. Fraser's role as Accounting Officer and have not been dealing with the President. Mr. Fraser, like all Accounting Officers, would have been issued with a circular on appropriation accounts from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform which deals with net allied services. There is a little confusion. 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: They are actual figures.
- 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: This circular puts an onus both on the OPW, which is providing the service, to be accurate in the figure, but it also puts an onus on Mr. Fraser to be sure the figure is accurate too. Does Mr. Fraser do any check or does he take it in good faith from the OPW?
- 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: Right, but Mr. Fraser as Accounting Officer is not involved. He presumes that the people involved in the finance function for the Áras-----
- 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 checked that myself and they tally. I looked at the Áras an Uachtaráin website last night. It provides useful information about the items we are discussing. There was a discussion about the shared services provided by the Office of Public Works. It lists on its website the costs for last year of €2.5 million. It is on the website and I am sure that Mr. McCarthy will...
- 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 am just reading from the Áras an Uachtaráin website.
- 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 question I had in mind is-----
- 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 do not really want to because that is getting personal to current or former Presidents.
- 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 in the Central Fund. It is published.
- 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.