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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are talking about the strategic communications unit.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Deputy MacSharry should put his question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The State Claims Agency is under the Department of Finance, as is the National Treasury Management Agency. Surely the Department of Finance would then be reporting on it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Fraser forward an information note on the matter to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Fraser is a knowledgeable man. That is why we are asking these questions.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: In the public interest will Mr. Fraser explain the difference between seconded and reassigned?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: GIS is the Government Information Service.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is important to use the full title of organisations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The politicos would, but the people in the bubble would not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Is Mr. Fraser saying everything will continue and that only the title "strategic communications unit" will be dropped?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is the gist of it. That is what I am picking up from what Mr. Fraser is saying.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The campaigns on Healthy Ireland and Sláintecare will still be run but through the Department of Health rather than the SCU?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: There is no change.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is well over his time. He will get a second opportunity.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I will put Deputy MacSharry down to speak again.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I will give the Senator a second opportunity.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Allow him to finish. You said he could take as long as he wanted to answer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I wish to be helpful. What Mr. Fraser has said so far, I gather, is that Members of the Oireachtas expressed major concerns about the operation of the unit. He said he personally did not share than view but he respects the view that if a large number of Oireachtas Members had that view-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I will intervene at this point because many people will watch proceedings at some point today. When did the Dáil vote on a motion on the strategic communications unit? I do not have the date.