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Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I, along with my colleagues, wish to raise the issue of the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, specifically the action plan which has recently come into the public arena. I wish to put on record my disappointment that the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, is not present for the debate. He has responsibility for this issue. Given that four Deputies are raising the issue, it...

Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Taoiseach should speak for himself.

Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is Sinn Féin going into Government with the Labour Party now? Is there anyone Sinn Féin will not go into Government with?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Data (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times for driving tests at each driving test centre throughout the country; the numbers on the waiting list for each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49498/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: RTÉ Revenue (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: 102. To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office included the debts of RTÉ on the State balance sheet in view of the fact that the majority of income in RTÉ is received from the Government following collection of TV licence fees and that this has been the case for a number of years. [49020/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: 103. To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office examined the accounts of each of the commercial semi-State organisations and other semi-State bodies that are in receipt of significant public funding as to whether the majority of their funding comes from public sources; and whether their debts should be included on the State balance sheet. [49029/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Data (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: 362. To ask the Minister for Health the number of attendances at each accident and emergency department in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48996/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: 625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the restriction regarding persons having to produce evidence that they have paid their water charges bill, notwithstanding that those who have paid are having their payments refunded, in cases in which a person is seeking to purchase their house from the local authority under the tenant purchase scheme will be lifted; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: 626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is a requirement that when a person is buying or selling a house in the private sector that they are expected to produce evidence that they paid the water charges bill in view of the fact that payments are being refunded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49021/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee, and he is accompanied today by Ms Maureen Mulligan, the deputy director of audit. No apologies have been received. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of our meeting on 8 November, the private meeting last week. Are they agreed? Agreed. The minutes of the meeting...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I understand everything the Deputy is saying. He correctly said that auditing RTÉ is specifically excluded from the Comptroller and Auditor General's remit. In a way, it might not be directly under our remit but as we have clearly established, over 50% of RTÉ's funding comes directly through the Department from licence fees. RTÉ is in an unusual situation. It leads to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am not disagreeing with anything the Deputy has said.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I have been considering this matter since the last meeting. I have submitted a series of parliamentary questions relating to RTÉ's funding, the public service obligation, its standing as a commercial semi-State entity on the State balance sheet and so on. What concerned me most of all last week was that when we asked the Secretary General about the service level agreement, he did not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I think we are agreed that RTÉ will be invited to address this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will draft a letter of invitation and specifically refer to there being no oversight agreement in place to satisfy the committee. We will address correspondence after Deputy MacSharry raises a matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General, not necessarily in time for next week, to write a note on how fixed assets are recorded in the different groups of organisations, whether they are appropriation accounts, semi-state bodies or different bodies. Most of them say that assets are recorded at historical costs, notwithstanding the revaluation of certain fixed assets which are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, this concerns property and fixed assets.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will move on to the rest of our correspondence. Document PAC32-R-893 A is a briefing document from SOLAS, so we note and publish that. Document PAC32-R-895 (i) A. is from the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, providing a briefing document. His covering letter draws attention to the fact that there is an ongoing investigation in relation to the Kildare Wicklow...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will read the item of correspondence, from the Secretary General.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Document PAC32-R-895 (i) A is the actual letter from the Secretary General to the committee, and he moves on then towards the last paragraphs. He attaches a briefing note, and then he writes:The Committee was previously notified by the Department about the commencement of the statutory investigation at Kildare Wicklow ETB. I have included the Terms of Reference for this investigation in the...