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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We made it very clear last week that we knew that the HSE and teachers are not included in the figures provided. I forgot to mention that the local authorities are also not included. They took the view that there might be a risk to the State to have all 300,000 public servants paid through one centre. It is probably no harm not to have everything under the one. That is probably a strategic...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will include that as well. The point is that perhaps we should have started at the beginning of the previous meeting with the overall picture and then homed in, rather than homing in first and then realising the overall picture. We have more or less thrashed it out now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We could include it in the periodic report for the spring that we will issue probably-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can have a specific chapter on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the meantime. We are writing to the HSE because of the scale just to get its numbers. It is something the Comptroller and Auditor General covers in his annual audit. Having looked through the 40 Votes the Comptroller and Auditor General highlighted in the schedule, I found it troubling that there were 1,068 Revenue cases...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: As a first step, we will write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to get the rationale in writing. When we get that, we can then decide-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask it to outline the overall strategy on the National Shared Services Office and who was to be included and who was not to be included. We will get that in writing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Exactly. When we get that we can discuss it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have agreed what we are doing there. We have reached the final item arising from the minutes. We will hold this one over. We also asked the Comptroller and Auditor General to give us a report on the compliance with public procurement. It became crystal clear at last week's meeting that when the Comptroller and Auditor General highlights €500,000 or €1 million of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General gave us an excellent schedule of overpayments by Vote. Can he dig out the same figures from the appropriation accounts for the non-competitive procurement?
- 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.