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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Do members want next Thursday's matters set aside, if needs be?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We can come back to the other matters in a separate meeting, if that is the way things work out. I ask the secretariat to inform us of any developments tomorrow.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Clerk to the Committee will check their availability directly. Then we will issue a letter of invitation and ask the State Claims Agency in terms of all of its clinical negligence cases. It is a follow up to the correspondence that both entities issued to us. I refer to the correspondence dated 31 January 2018 from the State Claims Agency and the letter about open disclosure, policy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We had it last week but held off on the issue of the audit report not being part of the document? What is the position? Is it part of the document?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: So we have had no reply.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: The matter has not been resolved so we will still hold that over. We received Trinity's set of financial statements but there was no audit certificate from the Comptroller and Auditor General in the document. We just want to know why. The audit certificate has been completed, but it did not work its way into the document supplied by Trinity College Dublin to the House. We are holding it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. It will be a short meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We do not know what is happening yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: No, we have not yet slotted people in. We can deal with some of the educational issues. There are gaps in the work programme and we want to discuss in private session precisely what we want to do about third level institutions. The clerk has a note to give us in private session on the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss the matter in private session. As I said, a note has been prepared on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: It will be circulated. We will go into private session to discuss committee business and then suspend the sitting until 2.30 p.m. when we will meet representatives of RTÉ.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: This afternoon we will discuss matters relating to RTÉ arising from the appropriation accounts 2016 and Vote 29 - the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. More than 40% of the Department's expenditure goes to RTÉ so we will engage with it to help us understand how this public funding is used. We are joined today from RTÉ by Ms Dee Forbes,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I thank Ms Forbes. We will start with Deputy Cullinane, followed by Deputies Catherine Murphy and Connolly. We will organise this slightly differently and stick to 20 minutes and 15 minutes and will give people a second chance. This morning I let people go on a little bit longer. Everyone will get enough time but we will stick to the usual slots and members can get back in a second time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we will try to get it for the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am taking a note of it. It is contracts -----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: When was that agreement signed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: And something was in place which preceded that? To clarify, there has always been one of those agreements?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: This will have to be the Deputy's final question because other people want to come in. He will get back in again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.