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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Does it relate to this batch of correspondence?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is part of the current periodic report we are compiling and it is covered in that. We have asked for updates before we finalise our periodic report, which is nearly there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: A final question from Deputy Kelly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Would the Comptroller and Auditor General care to comment on that? Obviously as part of his work, he examined the risk register.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: What is his understanding of this committee's entitlement to a copy of the risk register for the various organisations whose accounts come under our remit?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Fine, but we are talking about the administrative processes and controls. We will ask for that information again.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes, we asked for this information last November.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will give them ten days. A week is a bit tight. We will ask again about the legal advice and when we get the reply within the fortnight, we can take that up with our own parliamentary legal adviser. The other issue that has come up a number of times is criticism of this committee, which is fashionable in some quarters and systemic in others. In that context, I am going to ask the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Or Deputy Cullinane in Waterford-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes, there are several examples.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: There is a break coming up between now and the Easter period during which I will ask the secretariat to work on this because it is important. We have so many cases-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: There are many issues that we need to address. We need to demonstrate what the Committee of Public Accounts has achieved, in spite of what those who want to knock us might say. We will certainly come back to that matter. The next item of correspondence is No. 1114B from Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general of the HSE, enclosing information requested by the committee on salary overpayments in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Sometimes one hears that money is payable to the Garda benevolent trust fund or social club. One sees instances of this reported on in local newspapers. The correspondent is clear that the payments do not go through the accounts and are not recorded or audited.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General might send us a note on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will follow up on this. We are told that there are two categories-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will write to the Minister for Justice and Equality in respect of categories B and C. The Department says that it is bringing forward new legislation — the criminal justice (community sanctions) Bill — which must include some revision to the operation of the court poor box. We will ask the Minister to take this into consideration and give us his views on the matter. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. No. 1131B is correspondence from Mr. Kevin McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Rural and Community Development, providing information requested at the meeting on 8 February 2018 when we discussed the Dormant Account Fund. We will note and publish that and take it into consideration when drafting our report on the topic. No. 1134B, from Mr. Deaglán Ó...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.