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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next items of correspondence are No. 797B from the Comptroller and Auditor General and No. 800B from the Department of Defence. The item was raised here the previous day. A technical issue arose due to the audit. We will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to give us a short report. It is a technical issue and we do not need a major discussion. However, there is a formal process...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: In other words, when we had an appropriation vote before Christmas, the matter was not captured at that stage. It came to light during the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit after the year end. A payment of €23,299 was recorded in a suspense account. It should have cleared out of the suspense account before the year end. It cannot go into 2017 because it relates to 2016 and we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is an accounting error. The Department recorded the payment in a suspense account rather than in the pensions account. It should have gone through the suspense account before the year end and cleared it out and put it into the proper account.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I propose that we note both of these items of correspondence for the record. We have a draft of the report on the appropriations account for 2016, Vote 35, which the Committee of Public Accounts will lay before the Dáil. The Dáil will then deal with it. We will issue this short report to the Dáil to the effect that it sees no objection to the excess sum being sanctioned by...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Garda matter will take a couple of minutes to deal with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: There are other items also.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I understand that. There are a couple of points I want to make. First, everything is clear-cut. Did members study the note of the justice committee last Wednesday?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: In fairness, the author of the report, assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Driscoll, gave a very comprehensive report at the justice committee meeting. Every question we have asked here was put to him and he answered all of them in terms of resources, who he consulted - Mr. Pat Leahy, local management and the assistant Commissioner - and the people he chose to consult. He deals with quite a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the secretariat to arrange it as soon as possible.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next item of correspondence is No. 793, dated 5 October. It is an acknowledgment from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. We asked it for an update on the project and the costs involved. It stated it would send on the details to us. We expect to see them very soon. Item No. 794C has been dealt with already in dealing with the HIQA issue. Item No. 795C, dated 9...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask that the individual be properly supported. The committee did agree a little while ago that we would finish with correspondence at 10 a.m. There might be two, three or four items to which we can come back.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is why I believe we should ask that they be supported.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a job of work to be done in that regard, although I am not sure by whom.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Public bodies have not yet learned how to deal with protected disclosures. That is a fact. If there is a job of work to be done somewhere, it is probably the job of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to get that across.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: If the Deputy could please send the committee a note, we will follow it up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: If the concern is to do with hiring staff and bringing back people who are receiving pensions then this committee needs to know about that, so the Deputy can do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We might refer it on. I do not know what the Deputy is referring to and we will not do anything until we know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will not duplicate the work. We will just see where it is and we will take it from there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, the Deputy should give me a note. Does Deputy MacSharry want to deal with an issue on St. Angela's College, Sligo?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is correspondence No. 796C, dated 9 October 2017, from Deputy Catherine Murphy relating to correspondence from an individual pertaining to a contractual issue regarding property at St. Angela’s College, Sligo. Deputy MacSharry's name was mentioned as he is the local Deputy in that area. Would he like to comment?