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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: In due course.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Go raibh maith agat.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. If any members have issues that would like to include on the work programme for discussion upon our return, they need to submit them to the secretariat. The Comptroller and Auditor General will have his report towards the end of September. Moving on, there are two outstanding reports that we have not yet looked at but will deal with again. One concerns the payment of motor tax-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: The administration of the collection of motor tax. The second report, which we have partly covered as part of the education report, concerns financial reporting in the public service. This will not take too much more time. We need to clear these as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have to be selective.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: I think we can all agree on that. We are having two or three extensive meetings a week and our commitment is really at the limit at what might be considered reasonable for a member of the Committee for Public Accounts. We will be more targeted in what do.
- 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.