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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and we will return to the matter when we do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: When we get the response, the second side of the correspondence-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: And given the unemployment levels.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: As Deputies, most of us know the problems on the ground that this is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is a broad issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. It is the system. When we get a response, we will decide what to do. No. 780C is correspondence from Deputy MacSharry following up on the acting Commissioner's appearance before the committee last week. Deputy Kelly has sent correspondence on the same matter. Does Deputy MacSharry wish to speak to the issue? We will deal with the----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane indicated, but I will invite Deputy Kelly first because he has sent in correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the chief superintendent of an area not have the ability to move staff from station to station?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Maybe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will not get into the details now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: In the Deputy's area.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I understand what is being said. Many different angles have been covered and there has been a broad-ranging debate. The committee must be clear and logical and ensure we get to a conclusion if we are revisiting this. I propose that we agree what members have accepted but I want a detailed and specific proposal to be prepared this week by the secretariat for the committee to sign off on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, to the committee members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The document will only be a proposal to be considered. There is one other item of correspondence, No. 760. Deputy Cullinane is aware of this or sent it to the committee. It deals with a person's engagement with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding the carer's allowance. The person is an employee of the Department and the Office of the Parliamentary Legal...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The suggestion is that in advance of our next engagement with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection as part of our work programme, the committee will put it on notice that we will want to deal with its review and appeals mechanism.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is an initial internal review process. As members know, a different deciding officer can do a quick internal review and thereafter it can go to the appeals office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The committee need a detailed note on that process. We will also bring in the Social Welfare Appeals Office in its own right. Statements and accounts since the last meeting have been put up on the screen. There is a clear audit opinion for the Marine Institute, the National Transport Authority, Pobal and the Residential Institutions Redress Board. We will ask the Comptroller and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will do so today. The next item is a clear audit opinion for Beaumont Hospital but attention is again drawn to expenditure totalling €1.3 million involving goods and services that were not procured by way of competitive process. There is a clear audit opinion in respect of Teagasc but with non-competitive procurement of services to the value of 725,000. I suggest we write to both...