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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will. When we get back that correspondence, we will discuss it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We can assemble the information first and then see what policy issues are involved. It sounds as if there is quite a bit in this. There is funding through the partnership companies and some of them are under the control of local authorities now-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: -----and the enterprise offices are there. Will they all come into the Comptroller and Auditor General's figures?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: Do they go through the local authorities?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: Will that come in then?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: They are part of the local government system. The Local Government Management Agency has a big say in much of the administration of many of these issues.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I will call the Deputy in one minute.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Aylward wishes to ask a question.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: No. What we are looking at here is the funding from all central funds to the local authority. How it spends it is a matter for the Local Government Audit Service and not for us. However, money is going to local authorities from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, the Department of Rural and Community Development, local...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: No. It is only looking at spending by Departments into the local authorities, but not how local authorities spend.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: Who are they?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We can consider it. We will write straight away to get the membership of it. I am sure it is on the website. We will have it for next week. Once the money goes into the estimates process in the local authority, we cannot delve into what local councillors do after that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: They are on the list and the schedule. There being no other business for public session the public part of our meeting has concluded, and we will meet again in public next Thursday, 25 January, when we will meet the Valuation Office to deal with Chapter 11 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2016 report on the national property revaluation programme. We will also look at related Vote 16.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Galway people coming in?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I was told before Christmas they were not available today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: It was from their side. We have them on the list before Christmas.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: I know the information was passed on to me.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: It was from their side. The date did not suit them.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: 319. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding introducing legislation whereby adopted persons can have full access to their adoption files after a reasonable period which may provide information regarding their birth parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2439/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: 362. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding payments that have been received in respect of communications constructed on the lands of the National Park and Wildlife Service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2473/18]