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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Let us get that. We accept that is only for the Votes. We can take it from there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General will try to work on that schedule.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We do not need it next week. The Comptroller and Auditor General was very quick with the last one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is Vote by Vote, which will be a great help. We are covering ground that is not always obvious until we tease it out. The next item on the agenda is correspondence received. In category A we have Nos. 1061 and 1066 received from the Department of Rural and Community Development, providing a briefing document and the opening statement for today’s meeting. We will note these....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Ten or 11.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: For the record, the Kerry Group said that "in relation to the subject matter of your invitation, we do not believe we have anything specific to add to your enquiries in relation to the Irish Revenue Commissioners administration of corporate tax." The letter goes on to say that the Kerry Group had a diary problem. The Kerry Group is saying it believes it has nothing to add.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Somebody suggested that American Chamber Of Commerce Ireland. I do not know because we do not want to just get a PR job here. Somebody mentioned that name to me. Can we note and publish the letters? We are writing to GlaxoSmithKline as indicated. There will be a private briefing session next week for the benefit of members but we will then have a public session. I understand that we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The NTMA intends to have its 2017 accounts finished in May or June and we tend to have its representatives before the committee before the summer recess.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it is the HSE. We will need to have the HSE with us to discuss that issue. It is a phenomenal item at €2.7 billion. The Deputy said the legal costs are not the main issue-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have not seen any results from the open disclosure policy yet. The figures are going up. When we have representatives of the NTMA here, which will be scheduled close to the summer recess, we will invite the HSE. We might have just one session on that because we will have other NTMA business. However, the State Claims Agency and the HSE must be in the one room on that occasion. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will note it and the Deputy is free to raise it again at any stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: However, we will forward this to the organisation that contacted us. The next correspondence is No. 1060 from Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, dated 31 January 2018, in reply to a matter raised by an individual alleging waste of public moneys by Dublin City Council regarding the digging of bore holes on private property. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and we will forward the reply we received from the National Women's Council to the person who contacted us on the matter in the first instance. No. 1064 is from Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, regarding issues raised by the committee relating to the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board and possible safety issues at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: That concludes that item on the agenda. The next item on the agenda is the work programme. There is no change from the list circulated last week. Does anyone have an additional comment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will call the members first and then we will come back to the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Say that again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will wrap up as we have had a discussion and next Thursday we will come back with a revised work programme. We will try to tighten it and ncorporate some of the other items mentioned. It might result in having to have a full-day session - morning and afternoon - on some Thursdays to get through the issues members have raised, in addition to the basic work we have to do each year on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: If members do not have a copy of the internal audit report, they can contact the secretariat which will supply them with the link to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back next week with a revised work programme. There is one small item to which I want to refer under the heading of "any other business". It will only take a moment to deal with it. It concerns the Courts Service and use of the poor box. I have received some telephone calls on the issue. Does it come within the remit of the committee?