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- 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Seán Fleming: We do not publish it.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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Everything comes to us. Nothing is held back from the committee by the secretariat. Occasionally, we must seek legal advice. The Deputy sees the extensive list of correspondence that we receive every week. We note it, publish it or agree to write back. That is all done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is the exception.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Do Deputies wish to go into private session for a moment? This will be too difficult otherwise. The secretariat's officials are probably better placed to explain the process. Can we go into private session?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: They cannot speak about this otherwise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Officials have to speak in private session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We can revert to this matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Maybe we will hold it over until next week.