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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. We are happy to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next item is statements and accounts received since the last meeting. We are tight for time, so I propose we hold over the schedule. We could spend ten minutes on it if we got into it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I suggested we hold it over. Was it the item about GoSafe cameras or the RSA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. The Deputy may liaise with the secretariat regarding the letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we are happy to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next item is the work programme, which members will see in front of them. Next Thursday is one of the big Departments which we have not had in so far, namely, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. We will deal with aid and international co-operation. The biggest item of funding in the Department's Vote is the Passport Office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: My constituency office is snowed under too. We all know why we are inviting it in. Some people will ask why we are bringing it in so I will explain, for the record. There is income from the Passport Office, in the order of €50 million, in the Appropriation Accounts which we are examining. It is very much part and parcel of the funding of the Department of Foreign Affairs and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Lots are being breached.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We want to know how many go through the passport express system. An Post parcel express renewal applications has a target of 15 working days but this is different from first-time applications and it is the latter where difficulties are being experienced. There is a target of 20 working days in that case and it said in a reply to a parliamentary question last week that it was 35 days in some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will be here. There are three topics: the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Vote; international co-operation and the Ireland bilateral aid Vote; and the Passport Office. We will ask the Passport Office how it is handling the €50 million in public money it gets annually and how efficient it is. We will all hear that staff are run...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Our work schedule goes to 12 July. The last thing I want to say-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will decide closer to the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We do not know yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Hospital consultants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have the HSE scheduled.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will list it as a specific topic on 5 July.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is a specific topic.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The HSE will be in on 5 July, which is in a couple of weeks' time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. That is definite. We said we would consider doing another periodic report from the end of January up to April. The secretariat is working on summarising the meetings that have been held. It is not a draft report but the secretariat putting all the information together as a discussion document. It will be circulated early next week and we will discuss it, perhaps, next Thursday for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will find out who they are. We will suspend while the witnesses take their seats.