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- 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 sure somebody in the Department will remember receiving that parliamentary question because it was tabled just before the summer recess.
- 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. Griffin also received 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: Did he get it during the recess?
- 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 knew I had it and took the opportunity to fish it out during the break.
- 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. Griffin should do that because some members are absent. Perhaps the Comptroller and Auditor General might be best placed to answer my next question. On page 28 of the Department's accounts, it is noted that there is €6 million in the petroleum infrastructure programme fund.
- 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: Also noted is the energy efficiency national fund. There is €32 million in that account and all that seemed to happen in 2015 is that it lost €2 million on its investment but there was no activity. There is also the carbon levy revenue fund. Can one of the witnesses tell me where those funds fit into the system or are they separate funds or is it just------
- 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: Where is that fund? Is it part of the Department's accounts?
- 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: It is not a separate fund similar to the environment fund?
- 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: It is in the Vote.
- 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 fine with that. When I saw it was a fund, I wondered was it in a separate account completely, as the environment fund is, but it is not.
- 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: What is the situation regarding the energy efficiency national fund and the carbon levy revenue fund? They are dealt with in paragraph 7.2 on that page.
- 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: Is that a separate account?
- 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. Griffin might send an information note on that to the committee because it is noted there and these are new accounts to me.
- 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 Minister had a 45.7% shareholding in the carbon levy fund. When the fund was closed, who were the private shareholders who got the balance?
- 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: No, I am talking about the carbon levy fund. The Government provided €35 million from the carbon levy revenue fund.
- 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 accounts note that net assets attributable to holders of redeemable shares stood at €5 million on 31 March 2016. At that point, the Minister held 45.7% of the total shareholding of the fund. Who owned the balance? Is that the new fund?
- 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. Griffin was dealing with the carbon levy fund and this followed after it and, therefore, I thought it related to 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. Mr. Griffin need not give me the final accounts. In respect of the 2016 annual report, Mr. Griffin must be tired discussing broadband but mobile phone signals are also an issue. I do not have a mobile phone signal from any operator in my constituency office or my house. At either location, I have to walk out to the garden or to the side of the road in order to receive a phone call....
- 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: Exactly. What can the Department do in this regard? Mr. Griffin must be aware that mobile phone signal quality varies and is poor in some areas, including busy locations.
- 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 me a note on that?