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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have not got it yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Before the day is out, we will write to Tony O'Brien asking him for a copy of it forthwith. I thank Deputy Connolly for reminding us of it. On reports, statements and accounts received, there is just one set of financial statements that have been laid in the Houses of the Oireachtas in the last week. Those are the financial statements of the Houses of the Oireachtas itself. The sum of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: There was a clear audit report on it and it was the only one received. We will note that. The next item is the work programme. To be clear, today I am proposing, once we finish this session, to bring in the officials from the Department of Finance to deal with the Finance Vote. In the afternoon, we will have those from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in regard to its...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: It will probably come out in early August.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Anybody in the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am alerting people to the information that we received last night, which is unsatisfactory. One would have thought the period was long enough to ensure we would get a reasonable picture of the overall situation. We will write to the Commissioner, asking her to give us as much interim information, even if it is not the final report. The Garda Síochána have to have an indication...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will read the note.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have been told that the Garda Síochána does not expect to have the report finalised until the end of this month, which is the end of July.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Garda Síochána is slow at getting information. We have other public bodies who are smarter and more prompt in providing information. We had information last night and more information this morning and it still has not answered everything. It has been a feature of our dealings with the Garda Síochána; it has not been as efficient in dealing with the Committee of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are only dealing with-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: I do not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: We were told the report will not be ready. We just got a message. We might try to find out more during the course of the day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Seán Fleming: During the course of the day we will try to establish a bit more information on it. At this stage, we have completed our discussion on the work programme and any other business. We will now move on to the Department of Finance Appropriation Accounts and the chapters in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General under that Vote. We will suspend the sitting while the witnesses...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015 (6 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: The committee is now in public session. Today we are joined from the Department of Finance by Mr. Derek Moran, Secretary General and Ms Ann Nolan, Second Secretary General. I am told that it might be Ms Nolan's last appearance before the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015 (6 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: Ms Nolan is moving on. We are also joined from the Department of Finance by Mr. John McCarthy, assistant secretary, Mr. Derek Tierney, principal officer and Mr. Fiachra Quinlan, assistant principal. We are also joined by Ms Victoria Cahill from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery that all mobile phones must be switched...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015 (6 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy and call on Mr. Moran to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015 (6 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Moran. The speaking order is Deputy Catherine Murphy, Deputy Marc MacSharry, Deputy David Cullinane, Deputy Catherine Connolly and Deputy Josepha Madigan. Deputy Catherine Murphy, the first speaker, has 20 minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015 (6 Jul 2017) Seán Fleming: Could Mr. Moran explain "contract manufacturing" for the members of the public who do not understand the term?