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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2017)

Seán Fleming: 318. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for an educational information officer to help an organisation (details supplied) with its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51502/17]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (5 Dec 2017)

Seán Fleming: 467. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided to County Laois for a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51489/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (5 Dec 2017)

Seán Fleming: 541. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the difficult financial situation members of the Defence Forces are in, in particular in circumstances in which there are young families, due to the low pay and difficulty in making ends meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51467/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are joined this morning by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, a permanent witness to the committee. He is accompanied today by Mahin Fitzpatrick. Apologies have been received from Deputy Shane Cassells. We will sign off on the minutes of the recent meeting at next week's meeting. Members have a list of correspondence in front of them. Before I get into the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will now move on to the correspondence received. The first item, 950A, is the briefing document from the Revenue Commissioners' liaison officer for today's meeting. We will note and publish it. Item 956A, correspondence from Niall Cody, chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, is his opening statement. We will note and publish it. Correspondence category B is correspondence from...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are still waiting for that second portion-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will conclude this topic. We can hold off. However, I think everyone is agreed that in the meantime we will forward this to the commission of investigation because it is relevant to its work and it would be improper of the Committee of Public Accounts to sit on information that may be relevant without forwarding it. It does not mean we are not coming back to it, but we will forward it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I take the Deputy's point completely.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will follow it up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are unanimous at this stage. In the meantime, we will note and publish it because it is on the record. We will make sure it is sent to the persons concerned with the transcript from the last day. We will send out a copy of that letter. While we are on that topic, we recently spoke to An Garda Síochána regarding the unit it had set up to deal with the Charleton tribunal. As a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have sought some information so the next course of action, which we will discuss in our work programme, is to produce a report. Can we come to it in the work programme in a few minutes? That is the next step. We will come to it on the agenda in a few minutes. The next item is No. 946B from Mr. David Keating of the national patient safety office in the Department of Health providing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: It does indeed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss the work programme in a moment, but the Deputies' points are well noted. The next correspondence is No. 949C from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills. This is in response to a request for follow-up information on the building of a boat on a school premises in Carraroe, County Galway. The Department states that it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We do not publish it. If, however, correspondence raises issues-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Everything is circulated. We often refer to anonymous correspondence. As a committee - and regardless of the source - we just note it or decide that it raises valid points that need to be followed up. We have done both depending on the content. Everything received, anonymous or not, comes to us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: It all comes to us. On occasion, we receive anonymous correspondence, but it is not shielded from members just because it is anonymous.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is our decision on a case-by-case basis. I wish to make a further observation. We have three other items of correspondence - I believe I received some last night or this morning - regarding Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board, KWETB, that have not yet been circulated. A number raise important legal and procedural issues and some that I have seen are potentially libellous....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Reportedly advised. It was just stated here. We were told that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am sorry, I was distracted.