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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have that in the work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is on the list. We have enough to keep us going.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: On the work programme, I wish to deal with one item of correspondence that arrived this morning, 13 July, from An Garda Síochána. It was not listed on the correspondence because it was received only this morning. The letter is from Mr. Joseph Nugent. I will read it out because it has not been published. It states:I know from coverage in the media in recent days and from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Exactly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat. I am sure there is a standard Oireachtas protocol on this. I will ask that the standard protocol be circulated to members and we can include it in our press statement so that people will be aware. There is an agreed protocol in the Houses of the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will have that circulated and published. We are dealing with the Garda Vote No. 20; the Courts Service Vote No. 22. The intention had been that we would have had a joint discussion with An Garda Síochána and the Courts Service to discuss the collection of fines for the penalty points, but I have been informed that the report is not ready. I understand there was no separate...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We can discuss the interim report. Essentially, I want to agree a timetable from now, 10 a.m. until 1.30 p.m. We have three and a half hours. Should we allocate two hours for the Garda Síochána, leave the interim report as there is an overlap with both organisations, and when the Garda are finished they are free to leave and we then move on to the Courts Service. To summarise,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are dealing strictly with the Garda Vote. The issue of the interim report and the collection of fines-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are a bit puzzled. The breath tests affects the Courts Service. We are dealing with two separate Votes today, first the Garda Síochána Vote, which we will deal with in the normal course of events in the first two hours. We have a separate Courts Service Vote being dealt with by the Courts Service which we will deal with separately, but there is an item affecting both of them,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will allocate two hours for An Garda Síochána, and one hour and a half for the Courts Service. Is that agreed? Agreed. As time will be tight, I will have to be very strict. I will not be able to apply the usual latitude. The lead questioners are Deputies Catherine Connolly, Marc MacSharry, David Cullinane, Alan Kelly and Catherine Murphy and Mary Lou McDonald. We will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: The meeting is suspended while the witnesses take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: We are now back in public session. This morning we will examine the 2015 appropriation accounts of An Garda Síochána. I welcome back the Garda Commissioner, Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan, who is accompanied today by some familiar faces, Mr. Joseph Nugent, chief administrative officer, Mr. Michael Culhane, executive director of finance and services, Deputy Commissioner Dónall...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. I now call on the Garda Commissioner, Ms O'Sullivan, to make her opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: Thank you very much, Ms O'Sullivan. Members have indicated and we will proceed in the following sequence: the first speaker will have 20 minutes; the second speaker will have 15 minutes; and other speakers will have ten minutes. That includes the question-and-answer period. I have to be strict on time because we have a busy schedule today. The sequence is: Deputy Connolly, Deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: The next speaker is Deputy MacSharry, who has 15 minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: Fine. I presume that those who did not go through that had tax clearance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: The witnesses might provide a note - in the context of tax clearance - on the people to whom the Garda made the payments.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: Sorry, Deputy MacSharry.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: They have-----