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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: I understand that we have requested that information and it is on our list. We will make sure we get it back. As there is no other business we will suspend and go into private session to take advice from the Parliamentary Counsel with regard to the issue of protected disclosures.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Service Level Agreements (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: 17. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is providing €424 million to 26 organisations without having a full service level agreement in place. [40974/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 24 May 2017, the status of the introduction of Mandarin Chinese as a leaving certificate curricular subject; the measures he has taken to engage with interested parties in this regard, particularly with representatives of the People’s Republic of China; the extent to which Mandarin Chinese is...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Seniors Alert Scheme (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: 258. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding the changing of contracts for the installation of personal monitored alarms; the rationale behind expected changes regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41068/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (27 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: 140. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the transfer arrangements for public health nurses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40810/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (27 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards that have been issued as a result of the new arrangements for persons that have been approved for the domiciliary care allowance arising from the changes in the budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40905/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (27 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: 202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons at the end of each month that were in receipt of rent supplement in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40903/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (27 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons at the end of each month that were in receipt of the housing assistance payment in each of the years 2014 to 2016, and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40904/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turbary Rights (26 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: 236. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of landowners and persons with turbary rights in areas of raised bog, natural heritage area network that is scheduled for de-designation; the number of hectares in each county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40288/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: 289. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40257/17]

Public Accounts Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Seamus McCarthy(An tArd Reachtaire Cuntas agus Ciste) called and examined.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: The committee is now in public session. We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to this committee. I welcome everyone back and trust everyone is alive and well and ready for more work. Apologies have been received from Deputy Josepha Madigan. I understand she will be stepping down from this committee to take up her new post as...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: We need a report on the prior years and then current years will be covered from here on in. We will ask for a specific report on previous years. No. 708B, correspondence 1-4, dated 14 July 2017, is also from the HEA and concerns further information on the combined liabilities of universities and the most commonly procured consultancy firms; the salaries of the presidents of all the third...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: The previous Committee of Public Accounts got a copy of this report at the end of 2015. I am curious. Can we check if it was the same redacted version or is it more heavily redacted? It is the same redacted version.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Auditors normally need unredacted versions of documents.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: How about we refer this to the parliamentary legal adviser to follow up the Deputy's point? Perhaps the PLA needs to consult the institute's legal adviser to agree an improved version. There will inevitably have to be some redaction if there are names mentioned.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. I accept we cannot work with this because we could not draw any conclusions because we would not know what we were missing in the redactions. I do not know the mechanism. We, as a committee, cannot negotiate with Cork Institute of Technology.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: We should ask the Oireachtas parliamentary legal adviser to help us to get a less redacted version and to communicate directly with the college on our behalf. I make that suggestion.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is a good idea. As the Deputy said, they have redacted names of organisations and the amount of contracts.