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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: It might be true but it might be false. We do not know, and nobody can tell us except to make the bland statement.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Possibly, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: One or the other.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will conclude. We will certainly have a deeper session on the PPPs. We will discuss it in the context of the work programme. What we will do, as part of our work programme, is take half an hour or an hour in private session to try to work out how we want to approach that and the type of questions we want to raise. We might need an external adviser to assist us in some way in our work...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is another day's work.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am sorry I opened up that hornet's nest.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay, okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Anyway, that is good. There are good mixed views on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay. It is a big issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: The matter under our remit, which is PPPs. The rest is under the Ceann Comhairle's remit. The question of the PPPs is the big issue. We have got a foot in the door that nobody has succeeded in previously-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: -----and we now have to shove the door open. We must plan how we go about it. We will discuss that in private session but we will be coming back to it in detail. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item of correspondence is item 1237B from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, dated 18 April 2018. Following receipt of the minute provided by the Minister to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: A private site.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Kerdiffstown is the private site on which the Deputy wants details as to why it is not on the list. The Deputy also wants details of what is being funded directly, by the Department or by the local authority-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: -----or by the EPA, and on a local authority by local authority basis, on remediating public sites as well. We will write to the Department directly on that. The next item-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: I do not have the letter in front of me.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thought I had it in front of me. Will we hold it over?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: We hold it over and come back to it in detail next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: If Deputy Catherine Murphy agrees, can we hold it over until next week?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: Is that agreed? Agreed. We will hold that over for the next session. We are waiting for something on the Haulbowline site as well. The next item is correspondence item 1240B from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, dated 19 April 2018, on the audited accounts of Trinity College Dublin for 2015-16. The letter states there was a...