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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I am not getting into the debate about the location. I can do that at the health committee, but it is worth looking at how the framework is managed. Simply put - the Chairman articulated this well - the decision-making process has to be and is influenced by the potential cost. That is the nature of life and decision-making. Obviously, there are clinical needs and requirements in this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: To what office is the Comptroller and Auditor General referring?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is probably still within the remit of the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: That is illogical. It should be within the remit of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I think responsibility for water provision was left with the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, for reasons of political expediency.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is the fourth. The Department of Social Protection spends a bit too.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Might I clarify a matter?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Is Mr. Gleeson the person within the Department who has responsibility for this area?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Mr. Gleeson or Mr. O'Driscoll might want to address my questions. The latter stated that his Department had "core responsibility". That is the phrase that he used. At least, that is what I heard. We can check the record. If he did not, I can withdraw it. Maybe he did not, but that is what I heard. That is how it works because Mr. O'Driscoll is the Accounting Officer for Bord na gCon. ...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: The Department has them but we do not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is more than not satisfactory; it is not acceptable.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: When will they be published?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have been through this process. I was in the Cabinet. When will the Department bring them forward?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It would not be difficult to have something like this placed on it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have to stop Mr. O'Driscoll because we only have a certain amount of time and he is not addressing the issue. When my colleague, Deputy Peter Burke, asked if Mr. O'Driscoll was aware of any issue regarding the accounts for 2015, I was not satisfied with his answer. I will, therefore, give him a second chance to answer it because I he prevaricated. Is he aware of any issue that needed to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Does anyone else want to respond? Does Mr. Gleeson want to respond? We have a job to do with the facts before us. We know that there are some historical issues that have to be dealt with and that there are issues that will be pulled out through the media. Does anyone in the delegation have any concern about the actions and behaviour of Bord na gCon senior executives regarding the accounts...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I asked a specific question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: The question I have asked is incredibly broad and gives Mr. O'Driscoll as the Accounting Officer and Mr. Gleeson as the person with line command an opportunity to outline the position. I do not want them to be exhaustive. If they have issues, they have an opportunity to outline them here, even if they only want to outline one, two or three of them. I do not want to be in a position where I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: What are they?