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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: In the meantime, there is a clear signal to the two Departments that the information should be provided before this day week or the Secretaries General will be here in person the following week. That is the template we are setting out from this point forward. A significant amount of correspondence has been received since the last meeting and we will go through it as efficiently as we can....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Who commissioned the report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: The HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to that. We will not discuss it any further while we are on this point, other than to say that we will come back to it. The same organisations crop up, whether the legal advisers, professional advisers or financial advisers. Sometimes a major company can provide different services to the same organisations. We will not do it today, but we might consider writing to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is known as management by consultants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: I say that facetiously. That is a facetious comment. We will come back to it. We will keep going with the correspondence. The point is made, particularly about the third level sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does the committee want to look at some of that before next Thursday?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will hold it over to next Thursday. I personally did not look at the 400 pages.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will not open up any new lines of inquiry as the commission is already in existence, whatever about looking at issues that have been discussed previously. Correspondence item No. 990 is from the Carlow-Kilkenny ETB with the information requested at the meeting on 16 November 2017 concerning key performance indicators and monies allocated to moneys invested in Coláiste Aindriú and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. I propose to put this on the public record and read out the total from each of the companies. This information would be publishable under freedom of information, FOI, if any journalist in Ireland made such a request. With all due respect to what the HEA is saying, we will revisit this issue. I have seen State Claims Agency-published lists of everybody it employs and the fees paid,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: No, that is something the Committee of Public Accounts will not get into. Our sole role concerns mechanisms to get the €13 billion lodged. It appears that this will happen. Because it covered a number of years, I think they are dealing with each year and there will probably be a separate lodgement. It is not a question of one big lodgement for the entire period. They will probably...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is currently €2 billion in the statements.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have found that these cases go so far but it may be different if there was more up-front candour by the HSE management and the senior medics involved if something happens. When, however, the management deny, deny, deny they get people's backs up who will then go to the ends of the earth. These people may have accepted the truth up front if they had got the truth up front. In my...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: The committee will write separately to the HSE and to the State Claims Agency to ask for a detailed report on the issue. We will forward the transcript of this discussion relating to what we are asking for, and we will also ask about open disclosure, as the Deputies have requested. I remember the HSE telling the committee some years ago that it had this new policy and that the State Claims...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Right. Normally we would bring in the NTMA when it publishes its financial statements mid year. Normally they are fairly prompt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: If we brought them in now we would be dealing with 2016 figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will include that on our work programme and we will set a time that will be most beneficial to have them in. We will certainly want the NTMA to come in on that. The next correspondence is No. 997B. Councillor Fiona McLoughlin Healy from Kildare wrote to the committee regarding an extension to St. Conleth's College, Newbridge. The concerns raised by the councillor were discussed by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have no idea.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Members can make separate inquiries on the matter. No. 1006C is correspondence from the Irish Environmental Forum forwarded to the committee by Deputy Connolly. The forum is complaining that the Environmental Protection Agency is wasting public money. Does Deputy Connolly wish to elaborate?