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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will make a decision shortly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: State organisations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Resolved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Jonathan O'Brien. We will bring this to a conclusion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: They keep mixing dates. They do not even say when it happened. They just state-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can agree to that for this day two weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: It was. In our correspondence the previous week, we were told it was subject to legal privilege because it was taken by the legal team.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I propose the following, bearing in mind that we are starting from the public accounts perspective. We are not investigating everything. Members will have noticed I have included a new paragraph in my opening statement to witnesses in the past month or six weeks. I state specifically that we expect witnesses to answer questions put to them clearly and with candour. As Chairman of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask him to have his legal people available in the building-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----not necessarily to close down the meeting but available if they are willing to allow us to speak to them. We are agreed on this. People will ask why the Committee of Public Accounts is following this matter. We were dealing with this as a result of the 2016 financial statements and following through these contracts. The committee had good reason to test the evidence of the witnesses...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I absolutely agree.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will have a private session when we finish public session today. At the end of the meeting in two weeks, the committee may formally bring its end of it to a conclusion and hand over to Dr. Scally before he completes his work. We should not let it just hang there. We will be focused as to why the witnesses are here. All the reference numbers to the items of correspondence I read out...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will schedule it for 9.30 a.m. after correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We might get correspondence out of the way. We will schedule the meeting for 9 o’clock. When we are finished with that, we will have a short recess and then continue with the business of the meeting with the National Treatment Purchase Fund and whoever else is scheduled to come on that day. We will finalise the timing arrangement in private session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Jonathan O’Brien is quite right. We will have a discussion on timing in private session shortly. The availability of witnesses is important. I forgot to reference correspondence No. 1346C from Deputy Cullinane.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I was giving the Deputy credit for sending an email directly on this. There are no account and statements this week. We will now suspend to allow witnesses to take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: The committee will discuss issues on tendering and procurement regarding €26 million worth of ICT contracts in An Garda Síochána. This matter was discussed at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality’s meeting with the Policing Authority on 21 March. In our role, as public spending watchdog, we are following up on the matter as it relates to 2016...