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- 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?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Would Deputy MacSharry think it appropriate that the committee would write to the college for a detailed response? We can take it from there when we get the response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will also ask the Department to respond to this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: When we get the responses back, the committee will consider it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: No members have any immediate recollection of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Which two campuses?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy mean NUIG?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write a letter asking for a note on the issue of the legal costs and any effects on services. We will get the audited accounts before us in the coming weeks. We will look to see if there is a note in the accounts and we will decide when we get the accounts. In the meantime, the committee will write to the college and the Department. The correspondence might deal with the issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: No. 801C, dated 6 October 2017, is correspondence from Deputy John Brady relating to Kildare-Wicklow Education and Training Board, ETB. We have covered this and we will write to the Deputy to inform him that the committee will be addressing the matter once we have received the Department’s report on the matter. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 802C is correspondence, dated 5 October...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have a question on that. The intestate fund account receives the proceeds of unclaimed assets. Does this include the assets of companies that have been dissolved? Does the Comptroller and Auditor General understand my point? I am referring to companies that have been dissolved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does it come through the Department of Finance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Can the Comptroller and Auditor General send us a note on that issue because as a parallel issue this related to individuals' unclaimed assets?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a clear audited opinion for the National Cancer Registry Board. In respect of the fisheries harbours centres there is a note about significant delays in the preparation of the auditable accounts, the billing of harbour dues and of rental income and the effectiveness of debt collection.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Fine. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General. We note that. The next item on our agenda is the work programme. We have discussed No. 20 on the programme and I will ask the secretariat to come back to us on that matter next week and take account of what we have already mentioned. There is one matter we might want to deal with in private session. It will take two minutes.