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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was an advertisement in a newspaper-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. Some 25 submissions were received. The issues centre on what happens to people in their employment after they make submissions. The process can go on for a long time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We did not. We also need to ask Mr. Watt how the process was carried out-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----who was notified and what the procedure was. I am guessing that line Departments were probably aware of it. I was not aware that the report was coming within a week or two until I read the letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I ask the secretariat to have a note for us on this issue at the next meeting, or as soon as possible, because we will not be here for too many more weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: It might not be comprehensive, but we need the three or four in front of us. In the meantime, we can find out about it because it is a public process. We will come back next week for definite to the issue of protected disclosures and discuss how we will handle it from there. I understand we do not want to leave things in abeyance for a long period. The next item is No. 1400B, also...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have looked at the letter again and propose that we write to the regulator which comes within the remit of the committee, while the operator does not. The letter from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform reads:Expired unclaimed prizes are transferred on a regular basis from the Prizes Bank Account to Premier Lotteries Ireland DAC General Bank Account where they are used for the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is the the report of the independent review group on the Department of Justice and Equality the Toland report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will do that directly. We will also consider all the responses as part of periodic report, but that is in the autumn. There are three items from the Health Service Executive. Correspondence No. 1406 from Mr. Ray Mitchell is a copy of the contract for the CervicalCheck provider. One relates to the master contract for MedLab Pathology Limited, while the other relates to a copy of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Dunmore-Durrow.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Justice and Equality.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am looking at the letter closely. We wrote to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government because local authorities are involved. The last of this paragraph essentially says to talk to the Department of Justice and Equality, which is the appropriate Department to deal with our queries on this matter about local authorities. That is the last paragraph of that letter. One can...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I know, but perhaps we should tell all three that we have written to the other two. We will send each of them a copy of the letter. I know the Deputy is being facetious, and quite rightly, because the public service is not good at that. It has a silo mentality.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We know that. We want a comprehensive reply signed up to by those three organisations, namely, the CCMA, the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána.End of Take We will seek a local authority by local authority report on the operation of the CCTV scheme referenced in this letter and on who acts as the data controller, not whose responsibility it is. If local...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. That was an urban scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Garda acted as the data controller in that scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Did it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. Next is No. 1407B. We have referenced this letter. We will note and publish it, then make a detailed response to follow up on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: My mistake. We dealt with No. 1407B on CCTV. Next is No. 1408B from Mr. John McCarthy, providing a response on the number of statutory inspections of rented accommodation supported by the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme. The Secretary General states that the Department is working to identify a streamlined process. I will not read the note any further. The Department is in breach...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Department also says that HAP can be provided in respect of a property that is the subject of a subsisting improvement notice. An authority can know that a property is not up to scratch and give the landlord a notice to improve it, but even before that work is done, tenants can still be moved in under HAP. A property is not accepted for HAP, however, if there is a prohibition notice or...