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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. McCarthy include not only the number of schemes but also their monetary value? Some are big and others are not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Do members agree to disposing with chapter 7 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report for 2016? Agreed. On behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I thank the witnesses from all the various Departments and the Comptroller and Auditor General for attending today and for the information supplied. We expect to see the follow-through on the few specifics. The secretariat will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency Data (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the maximum compensation that can be paid in respect of a person with a lifelong enduring disability that has died as a result of negligence of the State; if this ceiling applies to persons that did not have a lifelong enduring disability; the role of the State Claims Agency in this matter; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Data (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: 149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases currently on hand by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal; the number dealt with in 2017; his plans to ensure that all are dealt with in a reasonable timeframe in the future; the number of meetings of the tribunal that occurred in 2017; the number planned for 2018; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: 185. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend the situation in which an immediate family member can have access and discuss the case of a mentally ill relative with their medical advisers in view of the fact that the current confidentiality clause prevents this happening which in some cases may not be ultimately in the interest of the person; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Engagements (7 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to meet formally with the Dutch Finance Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6252/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the maximum compensation that can be paid in respect of a person with a disability that has died as a result of negligence of the State; if this ceiling applies to persons that did not have lifelong enduring disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6216/18]

Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: On the new mortgage-to-rent scheme that has been promised, some years ago the Government introduced a mortgage-to-rent scheme in respect of which the Government bowed to pressure and gave the banks a veto such that a bank could go after a customer for the negative equity even when that person gave up the title to his or her property, . A new scheme is now being introduced. The old scheme...

Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: The mortgage-to-rent scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (6 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: 367. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5523/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (6 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: 397. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding for a project (details supplied) for the purchase of a new building in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5777/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (6 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: 611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding housing in County Carlow (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5398/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by Mr. Seamus McCarthy, permanent witness to the committee, who is joined by Ms Patricia Devlin and Ms Olivia Somers, senior auditors in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Apologies have been received from Deputy Mary Lou McDonald. The minutes of the meeting of 25 January 2018 have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed. Any matters arising from the minutes...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Before Deputy Connolly speaks, we have scheduled a meeting on the chapter on central government funding for local authorities for 8 March, which seems germane to this topic. Examining the current figures in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report is all well and good, but we need to know where the baseline is coming from, so it is relevant.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Connolly is referring to central funding but excluding rates from her statement.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Counties' rates revenue can be large or small.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Kelly might know something about it as the former Minister.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will ask about this topic and about the figures regarding the local authorities that used their discretion over the 15%.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Only a few increased the rate. Laois and Tipperary were among them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: The scale of it.