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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will not circulate this letter to members, which they can see on the screen, but we will write to NAMA in the general context.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: A few members got it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: I got it yesterday and another member told me they got it yesterday also, and the clerk to the committee got it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: No. Say no more. The Deputy cannot draw a conclusion-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: I know. I think we are clear about what we are doing with this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. That will be our first meeting. That is why I want this letter to go to NAMA. I am proposing that our first meeting in September will be with NAMA representatives. They have not been here since December 2016. It will be more than 20 months since they were before the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: They are long overdue a visit. One of the reasons I want to clear this, even though it came in to us at the last minute, is that we can send it to NAMA. We will then be able to deal with the general issues when NAMA comes in before us. I think we are agreed on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: No. We are not publishing it. We are not circulating it, even to the members, because if we circulate it, it may have parliamentary privilege. Members can see it now and if they want to know more about it, they can get The Irish Times. I say that in jest.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. That deals with the correspondence. Statements and accounts received since the last meeting are being put on the screen now. We will move through this quickly. The first item is the National University of Ireland Maynooth audit opinion. Deferred pensions is referred to and non-compliance with procurement. We will come back to the non-compliance with procurement issue in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: The National Treasury Management Agency; we were talking about NAMA a moment ago. All of those are the accounts of the NTMA, which we will deal with shortly. That is noted. The next item is the Insolvency Service of Ireland, clear audit opinion. I think all of that is on today's list.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes, so the Deputy can read its financial report and see how it is doing. On the last item, I want to have a brief discussion on the work programme for the autumn. We want to have meetings set up for the autumn. We are back on 20 September. I think the Dáil comes back on 18 September. On 20 September, the first day back, we have agreed already that we will have NAMA...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. The 2017 annual report is normally out at the end of September. DPER representatives should be well able to speak on their Vote the following week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: That will be the 2017 material. If there is anything to finalise in the 2016 material, well and good. We will be on the 2017 Appropriation Accounts principally and those other items. On Thursday, 11 October, I suggest it is worth inviting in representatives of the Office of Public Works, which is a very interesting Department. They have not been before the committee in quite a while....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: At this stage we might schedule in the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government for the following week because housing is a big issue. We need exact figures now on actual construction by local authorities and approved housing bodies and approvals for money. We saw in a report yesterday that one third of the money allocated to approved housing bodies had not been utilised. There...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: And the cost, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will deal with housing and if members want to raise specific topics, they should submit them to the secretariat so that the Department can get notification of them. I suggest we deal with housing specifically on that particular day as it is such a big issue. We will not complicate other issues in the Department; we will deal with housing only. There might be more information in the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: This session will deal with chapter 23 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report. The chapter relates to the accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA. We will also deal with the NTMA's financial statements for 2017, which have been published recently. We are joined today by Mr. Conor O’Kelly, chief executive officer at the NTMA, Mr. Ian Black, chief...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. O'Kelly to make his opening statement. I apologise for the delay in starting. It is our last meeting of the season and we had much tidying up to do which took longer than normal.