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Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am worried that ETBs would feel they have less control over an internal audit. Does Mr. Loftus understand my question?

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will now conclude the meeting. Does the committee agree to dispose of the Tipperary ETB 2015 financial statements? Agreed. I do not propose to dispose of the Carlow Kilkenny ETB 2014 financial statements because the investigation under way may examine a period prior to 2015.

Public Accounts Committee: Tipperary Education and Training Board and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I meant to say that but I am confused at this hour of the night. On behalf of the committee I thank our witnesses from the Departments of Education and Skills and Public Expenditure and Reform, SOLAS and the four education and training boards. Is it agreed to dispose of the SOLAS accounts? Agreed. I thank the witnesses for their attendance and the Comptroller and Auditor General and his...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (15 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when all funding and arrangements will be in place for a school (details supplied) to move to a new location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48367/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (14 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: 205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Ireland will ratify the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and put in place legislation for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47824/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. He is accompanied by Ms Georgina O'Mahony, deputy director of audit. We have received apologies from Deputy Mary Lou McDonald. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meetings of 24 and 26 October. Are they agreed t? Agreed. As any matter that may arise...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is grand. You are happy with that, Deputy. We will proceed on that basis. I thank the Deputy. We will get further information on it. Although that particular horse has bolted, we have no wish for another to bolt. The next item is correspondence No. 841, dated 24 October, from Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills. As requested...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Do you want us to put the Secretary General on notice to have specific details in respect of the Galway property?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will put the Secretary General on notice. We will allocate 15 minutes to that. Since it is not the main business of our meeting we should limit it to those members who have a particular interest in it. We will want to move on to the main business of the meeting. Given that the man will be here and we have a letter from him today, I believe we should have a short discussion on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: That will be communicated to the Department of Education and Skills after today's meeting in advance of next week. That is the reply from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. It is being returned to the Department and we will ask for a comprehensive detailed reply. The next item is 860B, correspondence dated 27 October from Ray Mitchell, parliamentary affairs division of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will note that and keep it under control. We will be coming to the issue of financial reporting in the public service separately in a few minutes. The next item is correspondence No. 866B from Mr. Marty Whelan of HIQA providing follow-up information to the committee arising from the meeting on 28 September. Matters covered include risk profiling in HIQA and the lease for HIQA's office...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, it is the same one. Further information is to come and we will consider it when we get it. That may happen next week. The next item is No. 880B, correspondence dated 7 November 2017 from the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Séamus McCarthy, attaching two notes on non-standard accounting processes in bodies audited by his office and accounts which are operated outside the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will note and publish it but will hold over the discussion on it. I ask members to keep it to hand because it is a valuable source of information for us in terms of our work. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for that document. Category C is correspondence from or in relation to private individuals and any other correspondence.Item No. 827C was held over from our last...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: There is correspondence on its way back from IDA Ireland and we will discuss the matter next week. We will note that and hold it over until next week. Nos.850C and 868C are items of correspondence, dated 19 October 2017 and 1 November 2017, from myself with responses to two parliamentary questions on the costs associated with the opening of Stepaside Garda station in 2016 and 2017. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy satisfied that we write back stating that it is not our intention to pursue this matter further but that Deputy MacSharry dissented from the decision?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes. We can write that. Could we agree to sending the letter? I know we normally operate as a committee. I think it is only right for Deputy MacSharry to make his point because it is his area and he wants to be involved.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I looked at the case and there is High Court decision but I do not know anything about the details. The two organisations involved have two different interpretations of it. At this stage I think it is a matter for the Higher Education Authority, HEA, which is responsible for those organisations. We should pass the matter on to the HEA and ask it to follow up on it. It is more appropriate...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, in due course. I think we will forward this correspondence to the HEA, ask it to follow it up and keep us informed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: That would be up to us to decide. The issue is whether the matter should be examined by the HEA.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Would the HEA have a role in talking to the two parties, which we do not have? That is not our job.