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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----the final financial statements for Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB have never been published since the board was established?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: In order that people will understand why we are critical of the third-level institutes, let me repeat that Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB has never published any set of audited accounts. Even though the information has been submitted now in respect of 2015, the Comptroller and Auditor General has indicated that the information he received for the accounts up to the end of 2014-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: I propose that we write to the chairman and chief executive of Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB stating that we expect the 2016 accounts to be submitted to the Comptroller and Auditor General for audit. The board has just submitted its accounts for 2015. It is six months behind in submitting its accounts for 2016. They are almost one year old at this stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: I propose that we give the board until the end of October to submit its 2016 accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB stating that if the 2016 accounts have not been submitted for audit, we will invite the chairman and chief executive to appear before the Committee of Public Account to explain the reason for the delay in public. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: No. 682C, correspondence, dated 3 July 2018, from Mr. Justice John Cooke, Commission of Investigation into the National Asset Management Agency, requesting the committee to identify if it is in possession of additional evidential material acquired by the Committee of Public Accounts other than from the National Asset Management Agency or the Comptroller and Auditor General and not listed in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is 100% within its remit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine states that the issue raised does not come within its remit. I will write formally to the Chairman of the committee, Deputy Deering. The issue is that a levy is payable to Horse Racing Ireland on the basis of the published fee that the owner of a mare pays for the services of a stallion. The actual fee charged can regularly be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am neutral on this issue. I will speak to the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and we will come back to it. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 688C is correspondence, dated 10 July 2017, from the clerk to the Joint Committee on Agriculture Food and the Marine in respect of correspondence we forwarded to that committee from an individual regarding the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Can we do anything now, particularly as the company is in the process of being wound up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will not do that now because we want to move on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will hold this financial statement over for the next meeting and come back to it then. The next item is the accounts of Dublin City University, for which there is a clear audit opinion. The financial statements of Dublin City University educational trust group have not, however, been consolidated with those of the university group. Here we go again. The trust had accumulated reserves...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next item is the credit union fund, for which there is a clear audit opinion. We then have Pobal, for which there is clear audit opinion, and the Health Products Regulatory Authority, for which there is also a clear audit opinion. We will note these with the exception of An Chéim, which we will come back to at our next meeting. The next item is our work programme. Today we are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We could finish at 12.30 p.m. No?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: It will be 3 p.m. or so when we come back in the afternoon. We have agreed to take a few hours in the afternoon to sign off on matters. I think we should agree at this stage to complete the Garda Síochána and Courts Vote before the voting bloc. If we start bit late when we come back in the afternoon after 3 p.m., we will take the required hours to finish out our business. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is it a financial or a medical audit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, they do not, because they did not publish the internal audit on Console.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the HSE for a copy of the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will find that out from the HSE and ask for whatever document is available. Returning to our work programme, we will complete our consideration of the report into the Garda Training College in Templemore later this afternoon and this evening with a view to launching it next Tuesday. I propose that we do so at 2 p.m., earlier in afternoon than 4 p.m. the last day, in the audiovisual room....