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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: To conclude, I understand what the Deputies are saying on that. What I have outlined is step one. We have to get to step one before we talk about what happens if they do not take that step early in the spring. Two important points to highlight: several of the key offenders are in the education sector. The Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills will be here next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are going to ask him how he gave out money to organisations in 2016 and 2017, and he is probably preparing an Estimate to give them money for 2018, without seeing the accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: At the start of the meeting we will be putting the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills in the hot seat for sanctioning estimates and expenditure year in year out when he has not seen the previous year's audited accounts. The second point: there were only a couple of us here at the end of the last meeting with the Health Service Executive, HSE, and it was one of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy mean the Committee of Public Accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We dealt with that the last day. Deputy Deering has joined the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and he attended the last day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Madigan has resigned from this committee and joined another and the Oireachtas appointed Deputy Deering who was here last week. He was here at the private session yesterday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy should do that through the secretariat.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy can just talk to them. We always want to ensure that two people are lined up in advance and they are ready in time honoured tradition rather than ringing somebody else up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The only issue we have is that the Policing Authority has a meeting in the afternoon of that day and the witnesses have to be out of here at 1 p.m. If we have to we can skip dealing with correspondence and start early.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: If there are any updated internal audit reports we have not seen over the summer we want to get those too.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: On the work programme, one final issue I want to raise, we have scheduled for the Revenue Commissioners to appear at the meeting on 30 November to deal with a report the Comptroller and Auditor General has written on corporation tax receipts. Many people think the role of this committee is to simply monitor expenditure. That is part of its role, and perhaps it takes up most of our time, but...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Finance is on the list. We will write to it next week seeking this information in advance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I want to draw the line here between this committee and the role of the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, which deals with the Finance Bill and future proposals. We are taking the legislation as it stands at the moment and how it operates. We are interested in how the legislation of previous years was assessed, the impact of it and what happened as a result of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We need to examine the process that is happening today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a budget available for consultancy for committees. We might possibly need a senior taxation consultant from some establishment who is very au faitwith this and can inform and educate this committee on how we need to deal with those we are meeting. The level of taxation expertise required does not exist anywhere in the Oireachtas. It is not its function. We will have to use the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We need help.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We need professional advice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Will we move on to today's business?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Social protection is on 7 December, and on 14 December we are dealing with bank stabilisation. That is in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. I think at this stage-----