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Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Could Mr. McCarthy say that again?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will conclude by thanking our witnesses, people from the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Health, the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts. The committee will adjourn until 9 a.m. on Thursday, 9 November 2017 when we will meet representatives of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will have access to special services as required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45445/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Expenditure (25 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the costs incurred by An Garda Síochána and his Department in 2016 and to date in 2017 in respect of the examination and the proposal to re-open Stepaside garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45242/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (25 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the national criteria and the process and procedures involved in respect of examination of emergency departments in hospitals throughout the country in which services are being reviewed; the number of emergency departments being considered as part of this review; the criteria for selecting particular emergency departments for review; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (25 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 220. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will re-examine the decision by the committee for physical and sensory disability to reduce the hours of a personal assistant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45241/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (24 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44650/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Services (24 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the accident and emergency departments in hospitals throughout the country in respect of which reports or plans have been drafted regarding changing the services available in these departments; the status of such plans and reports in draft or in final form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44555/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sugar Industry (24 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44649/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Commemorative Medals (24 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 436. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the circumstances and the criteria of the persons issued with a 1916 centenary commemorative medal during the centenary commemorations; if medals were issued to retired members of the Defence Forces (details supplied); his plans to issue 1916 medals to those persons notwithstanding certificates issued on Veterans Day in the Curragh to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The committee is joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to this committee, and he is accompanied today by Mr. John Crean. Apologies have been received from Deputy Peter Burke. I welcome Deputy Pat Deering to the Committee of Public Accounts and we look forward to working with him. Deputy Deering replaces Deputy Josepha Madigan....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Correct.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will discuss the HIQA correspondence. There might be a legal issue. The documents we discussed last week had "legal privilege" written on them. We have received correspondence to say that legal privilege is not withdrawn. We will come to all of that collectively because it is all connected. We must consider that point when we come to it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will deal with all the HIQA-issued correspondence as one item in a few moments. We will now deal with the other routine items of correspondence. The next item of correspondence is category B, dated 11 October 2017 from Ms Moyagh Murdock, chief executive officer, CEO, of the Road Safety Authority following a request from the committee to provide information in respect of the impact of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: My mistake. I wondered about that. There is an explanation on the non-competitive procurement of goods and services. We will note that reply. The next item is correspondence No. 806B received on 11 October 2017 from Ms Joanna Murphy, chief executive officer of ConnectIreland. The correspondence, which relates to the meeting with the IDA on 5 October 2017, states that comments made by Mr...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely. The committee asked for that information from the IDA in public at the last meeting, but the response has not come back yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We all know that ConnectIreland has contacted various Members of the Oireachtas and has had meetings with many people. As a first step we should get a response from the IDA and then take it from there. I am not long-fingering this. That company has made its case to quite a number of people in the House. We will come back to it once we get a response from the IDA.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: This item of correspondence from ConnectIreland has to be teased out fully, and it will be. This is the first step. We will get a response from the IDA and take it from there. I should have said that the Road Safety Authority item mentioned earlier was reference No. 825B. I made a mistake there. Correspondence item No. 823B dated 18 October from Mr. Tadhg Daly, CEO of Nursing Homes...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is the main item of discussion in correspondence, and I want to get the other things out of the way. That is all I am doing at the moment. The next item is No. 808C,correspondence dated 13 October 2017 from Alan Kelly with a list of questions to be forwarded to Cork Institute of Technology. Can we note that? The letter has been issued by the secretariat. As a general point, we often...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The questions that have been submitted have been sent out. Members should understand that it is in all of our interests to know what questions are being asked in our name. The next items of correspondence are Nos. 809C(i) and (ii), from an individual to the Taoiseach in respect of the issue of teachers not being State employees despite being covered by public sector pay deals. We have...