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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: They are not off the hook yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. He is joined by Mr. Matt Collins, assistant secretary, and Ms Finola Rossi and Ms Rebecca Minch, principal officers. They are also joined by Ms Mary Austin from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to turn...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy noted that the environment fund is a separate fund of €35 million and is not before us today. The environment issue is part and parcel of what we are examining and I consider this a gap in today's proceedings. Will Mr. Griffin tell us the position on the plastic bag levy?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We will be here for a while yet. Would it be possible for someone to contact the office and have the most recent accounts on the environment levy emailed to the committee in order that we can take the environment fund into our considerations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: That would not be adequate.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I ask that somebody contact the Department now and ask for the 2015 accounts to be emailed over to us so that we can circulate copies of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We do not need to know the exact figures for 2016 but it would be remiss of us not to discuss the environment fund. I would like to deal with all of this in one go, if Mr Griffin could arrange that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Yes. We will ask to liaise on this. Over the course of the meeting then we will-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I will ask a member of our staff to liaise with a member of staff from the Department and find the most convenient way for us to acquire it and circulate it in hard copy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I am sorry about that but Mr. Griffin can understand that I want to complete the task now that we are here this morning.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I now call on Mr. Griffin to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Griffin. Speakers have indicated in the following sequence: Deputy Connolly, Deputy Aylward, Deputy Cullinane, Deputy MacSharry and Deputy Catherine Murphy. The first speaker will have 20 minutes; the second will have 15 minutes and all speakers after that will have ten-minute slots.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: The Deputy has one minute remaining.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: One of the three rivers that have been mentioned - the River Nore - passes by my front door.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Deputy Aylward is not the only person with an interest in this matter. Can Mr. Griffin explain what he meant when he said the river is below the conservation level? Can the Department work with fishing clubs to try to restock rivers? If the Department thinks a river is below the conservation level, does it walk away from it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Griffin to explain what this means.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: When no fishing is taking place on a river in order to allow it to restore its salmon stocks naturally, how long does the process generally take? Does it take five years, ten years or 30 years?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I understand if Mr. Griffin does not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Griffin send us a detailed note?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Absolutely. I call Deputy Cullinane.