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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The main business is chapter 12. I am flexible on the time but the main business is chapter 12 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report and the management of ancillary services at the Garda Síochána College. In view of the fact that we invited people in on that, we said we would allow a specific time at the beginning of the session to address what we just discussed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Will we agree to go to 10.30 a.m.?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will move on to the main chapter at 10.30 a.m.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I ask acting Garda Commissioner Ó Cualáin to make his complete opening statement. When we are finished with the Stepaside issue, I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to introduce his chapter at 10.30 a.m., which is the main agenda item of today's meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have approximately 45 minutes left for this session and speakers have indicated in the following sequence - Deputies Alan Kelly, David Cullinane and Marc MacSharry. Can we confine it to three speakers for this particular topic? Fine. Deputies have a maximum of 15 minutes each.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am concerned other Members might come in the door and want to speak after that. That is my concern.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is a straight answer and we have got it loud and clear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The criteria were set by the Government. Government policy is outside the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is in black and white. Will the deputy Commissioner tell us what the timescale is for reopening Stepaside Garda station?
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: What about Stepaside Garda station?
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will be well into 2018 before Stepaside Garda station is reopened. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: It will not be before Christmas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will move to the Secretary General and then call Deputy David Cullinane. The expenditure to be incurred by the OPW on buildings and staffing in 2018 will be for the Select Committee on Justice and Equality to consider as part of the Estimates process. Does Mr. Waters have a date for the Estimates meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Has the date been set for the 2018 Estimates meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Waters convey the message to whoever is preparing the information note? Perhaps it is a matter for An Garda Síochána. I am unsure who comes in for the meeting on the Estimates for next year. That committee should receive a note on the potential cost in 2018. It is in the Official Report for the Dáil in response to parliamentary questions I asked. The Department...
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Driscoll was cut off mid sentence. I will allow Mr. O'Driscoll to complete the answer he was giving when he was cut short.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have our view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am concluding, and will call Deputy MacSharry. Essentially, Mr. Leahy has stated that he has a broad range of priorities, the reopening of the Garda stations is based on the criteria, and this was a pilot project. If it had been his task to look at his broader range of responsibilities, this issue would not have been top of his list, but Stepaside met the criteria he was working to,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Acting Commissioner Ó Cualáin has made his decision in respect of the six that he read out to us here today. That is his position but there is a process of work to be done before that is implemented.