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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss the education and training board functions in Dublin. The rationale for inviting representatives of Kilkenny and Carlow, Limerick and Clare and Mayo education and training boards is that some of them have been performing poorly with regard to their accounts and we want to bring in some of the tardy boards. However, I also asked the secretariat to choose the best education...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: ETBI is not funded.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy McDonald wishes to bring in representatives of Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Oversight.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Did we agree that it would go to all members?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Board members do not know that this is going on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will sign off on this shortly. We have a duty. We are here for value for money for the taxpayer. I suggest that if we bring in four or five ETBs that have problems, we could take a proactive role and tell ETBs that they need to lift their game. We are not asking them to do anything that is not achievable. It is not to give anyone a bualadh bos. It is to use one ETB to show the others...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will not allocate too much time to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Maybe we will finish. I would request, as Chairman, to have them here in case, for example, we have three ETBs complaining that it is not possible, so we can say that it is possible. We may substitute Limerick and Clare ETB and Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB for the Tipperary ETB and Kildare and Wicklow ETB. We will go ahead with the Department, SOLAS, City of Dublin Education and Training...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will be conscious of that but it does not stand us down in our role. That is the format.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Here we are again. The best City of Dublin ETB has is two year old financial statements.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Oh my god.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We want each of those, in preparation for their meetings, while they may not have audited accounts, to have up-to-date financial information from their own management accounts so they can answer current questions. It has to be very clear that we will ask current questions. We will write to ETB Ireland and ask for a copy of its most recent financial statements so we have them in our talk...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are still on the work programme. There is the matter of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, and Nursing Homes Ireland, NHI. I ask the Vice Chairman to take the Chair since I have to go out for ten minutes. I will resume when I come back.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane has indicated his wish to speak. We will give a maximum of an hour to this matter so we can begin with five-minute slots.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The other speakers will follow the Deputy's line.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Could we have a final response to that question?
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Would Mr. O'Brien be satisfied if we wrote directly to Deloitte to request a copy of the draft?