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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Other committees will do other work.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Joint Committee on Health will also work on the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Other committee will work on the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We had already pre-scheduled the State Claims Agency to come in with the HSE.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The agency has been on our work programme from weeks ago. They were not scheduled to come in until July because the agency's annual accounts for 2017 will not be ready until June. We had already planned to bring them here in July to discuss the sum of €2.6 billion for starters, among other things. How do Deputies wish to proceed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Yesterday, I tried to find out the budget for CervicalCheck. The national screening programme covers CervicalCheck, BreastCheck and BowelScreen programmes and I think the figure is about €60 million. I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to help me because I could not find the figure anywhere.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We want to invite the HSE and State Claims Agency to a joint meeting to discuss these issues. We will try to aim for next Thursday, probably in the afternoon. Who are we meeting in the morning?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will try to slot in a meeting as quickly as possible. We will liaise with the secretariat this afternoon to get a date.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: In terms of the State Claims Agency, the vast majority of the work relates to clinical negligence cases of which CervicalCheck is a component.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Plus procurement in the afternoon. I will ask the secretariat to work it this evening and by tomorrow morning we will know whether we are-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

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?