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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: If we require extra information during the course of a public session, we write and get it and then we consider it. During my time, we have never taken a proposal for a recommendation from the committee to be taken without it being teased out.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We do recommendations in a report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: There are not enough members here to make a decision on behalf of the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: There is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is only moving correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Can I be straight? I see value in a big organisation. I see value that if somebody has a complaint about somebody in an organisation and makes a protected disclosure and that organisation is big enough, it can include people independent of the people concerned who can investigate internally. Every single complaint made by each public servant should not be sent to an outside firm.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Well, somebody independent.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Someone independent.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: That point was well made here today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: No. There is scope for internal investigations and examinations of protected disclosures internally within organisations. It is not a requirement that every complaint should be outsourced.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We accept and they accept the point and we will make a recommendation on it. We normally do it through a structure, having considered all the evidence. I am in favour of the Deputy's recommendation but it will probably work its way into our next report. It will not be today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am not disagreeing. We are just parking it. That is all we are doing.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: It will be possible to email that in.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy has said it on the transcript. We will get the proposal from the transcript.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy's proposal is in the transcript and that will be before us next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am not personally aware as Chairman of an update. We will ask a representative from the legal advisor's office to be here in private session next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: As Chairman, I can say that we will have it in writing for next week's meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: But we will have it in writing.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The commitment I can give the Deputy is that we will have a position paper from the parliamentary legal adviser for next week's meeting. That is as much as I can say today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I know the format of dealing with the parliamentary legal adviser and the office of the parliamentary legal adviser will want a memo setting out what it is being asked to look at. I will ask that both the Deputy and myself agree that memo before it goes to the office.