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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Irish Universities Association receives €2.7 million directly from the universities to fund itself. It has a corporate governance role. It was not mentioned to us at all. We have spoken about this issue at length. This organisation mirrors the organisation for the education and training boards, Education and Training Boards Ireland, which receives €1.6 million. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a lot in it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will move on. Deputy Aylward had indicated earlier.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will circulate them. They are private companies and they are all privately audited.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. It is a bit like section 38 and 39 bodies to which the HSE provides funding. We have got a copy of all of their financial statements from the Companies Registration Office. The companies are limited by guarantee, have private auditors and are listed as charities. We have them. It is a point. It is all public money but at one step's remove. They cannot make any case that it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: They all meet that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will move on. We will note and publish the large document but we will hold it over for further discussion as part of dealing with the third-level sector. Next is No. 1123, a document in which Mr. Michael Nolan of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, provides follow-up information on PPPs, cost variations and value for money. We will note that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: This makes the point again. It is the third or fourth point. The meeting with those Secretaries General was on one specific issue, namely, PPPs. They should have provided this information to us in advance of the meeting. There was no other item on the agenda that day. Yet, it is now that we are getting most of the information. We note it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was no EU funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will the Deputy think about that and come back? TII said it did not have an obligation and was not opening up its-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. We note and will come back to that item. We will note and publish that. No. 1128 is from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, and relates to an internal audit report on the activation and family support scheme. We will note and publish that. No. 1229 is correspondence, dated April 2018, from Gerard Cahillane, a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have already received it from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is in our previous correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We have received that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We received that earlier. It can be recirculated. No. 1173, dated 1 March, is a request for an extension to the tax relief scheme for drivers and passengers with disabilities. This relates to a specific case. It is not a matter for the committee to deal with a specific case. We will just note it. The next item, No. 1197, is from Professor Patrick O'Shea, University College...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. It carries over from year to year. The account does not cease at the end of the year. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Who audits it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Courts Service deals only with the cash handed in to the court poor box. What we are really highlighting is that there were two other lines of funding, directly to charities or local organisations or via the Probation Service, that do not go through the poor box at all. That is the essence of the question.