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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will revisit this as a proposal for the programme.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have to cover 24 chapters between now and next June, if we are all here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: There is a chapter about it at the end of this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is guaranteed to.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Another matter we will have to come back to is the issue of public private partnerships. There are some 17 big schemes, ten have been reviewed and no reports have been published, as I gather. The Committee of Public Accounts is in the dark about these. We will get to them all.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I have just given an outline of matters to address in the coming weeks.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will write to the board of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, and the Department seeking an update on current proposals. We will put them on notice that when they come in, they will be asked about this specifically. We will write to them today asking for an update on the proposals.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will have it for discussion when the representatives come before the committee. The fair deal scheme has been mentioned. We will suspend to allow the representatives of IDA Ireland to take their seat. At the meeting last week we had a complete discussion on two matters of protected disclosures. We had a briefing and agreed to write to the people involved. We asked the parliamentary...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will now examine the 2016 financial statement for the Industrial Development Authority, IDA. I would like to welcome Mr. Martin Shanahan, CEO of the IDA and his colleagues, Ms Mary Buckley, Ms Eileen Sharpe, Ms Regina Gannon and Ms Sarah Jane Hutchinson. We are also joined by Mr. Brian Walsh from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation. I remind members, witnesses and those...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Thank you. I now call Mr. Shanahan to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will stop Mr. Shanahan there as he is about to refer to Brexit. Not a day goes by without the House discussing Brexit so we will park that. The reason I am butting in is that because of the statements in the House at 12 noon, our timetable is truncated. Mr. Shanahan was going to refer to Brexit, source markets, the organisation's performance in 2017 and its 2016 annual accounts. We will...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: This will have to be the Deputy's last comment. It is his last question.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is on her last question.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We would be much obliged if anyone could help on that one.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy has one minute left.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I have a couple of questions and Mr. Shanahan knows where I am coming from. I congratulate the agency on the approximately 200,000 people or 10% of the Irish work force in foreign direct investment companies in Ireland. The payroll in IDA Ireland companies is probably a bit higher than in other local companies or the public sector. They are good employers in terms of improving the local...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Painfully. I will not labour the point as we are short of time. In the midlands, the figure is 4,280, which is the lowest for the regions. Laois has been one of the fastest growing counties in terms of population and the witnesses mentioned population and urban trends in the opening statement. The population of Portlaoise, as the witnesses know, is substantially higher than Tullamore,...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We can agree an appropriate schedule.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will leave it at that. We are concluding the meeting because we wish to attend the Dáil. Is it agreed to dispose of the 2016 financial statements of IDA Ireland? Agreed. On behalf of the committee I thank all the witnesses from IDA Ireland, the Department and the Comptroller and Auditor General for being here and for the material supplied.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a tax allowance for the parents of children that are working to bring it in line with the child dependants allowance of €29.80 per week (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42015/17]