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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: On behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I thank all the witnesses from the Garda Síochána, the Department of Justice and Equality and the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund Data (31 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 53. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount owed to the social insurance fund; the efforts made by his Department to collect moneys owed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25716/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (30 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the funding provided on a local authority basis for each of the past five years under the improvement works in lieu of a local authority housing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25521/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 286. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the arrangements in place in which a person in receipt of a means-tested payment from his Department inherits some assets from a person, in view of the fact it may take a considerable period of time for the estate to be administered and the assets to be transferred to a person that was is in receipt of the social protection payment; if the means...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (30 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 287. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person who is entitled to the full state contributory pension in the United Kingdom is entitled as a result of this to the full contributory State pension here at the Irish rate; the arrangements in place in cases in which the UK pension is lower for a top-up payment to be made to Irish persons to bring them up to the Irish contributory...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. No apologies have been received. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meetings of 11 and 18 May 2017. Are they agreed to? Agreed. As there is nothing specific arising from them that will not come up in our discussion of items further down the agenda, we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy propose to send on directly-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I do not know the answer to that question, but we will have the matter clarified.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have not concentrated on it until now. We will inquire whether it is included in the terms of reference and formally write to it again on the issue. The next items are Nos. 520B.1 and 2 from the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, Seán Ó Foghlú, regarding Caranua's accommodation. There was a debate in the Dáil yesterday on this issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: It did, regarding the date. In correspondence, item No. 517C, Ms Mary Higgins, CEO of Caranua, corrected a statement made at the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on 13 April 2017. For the record, Caranua had rent-free accommodation from 2013 to May 2016, not 2017, as had been indicated.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General might give us his observations.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Let the Comptroller-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We need to write to the OPW to ask what brought about the change in approach from earlier years to 2016. It was not charging rent in the earlier period and the OPW seemed to change its approach.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will conclude this. We will write to the OPW to ask it to explain its change in policy. That is for the OPW to answer directly to this committee. The second letter will be directed to Caranua to clarify the evidence. We will check the transcript. If its representative indicated it had not paid up until 2016-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: There is a revised letter today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, she had the wrong date. Okay, that is clarified. Given that there must have been some contract resulting in them taking on that payment in 2016, did they get the Minister's consent for the contract? We will ask the Department the same question. Caranua is not in the new premises and the documentation has not gone in. We will ask the OPW to clarify the change of attitude and Caranua...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: The legislation may not agree with the Deputy's sentiment.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is what we want to know.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: And costs.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is agreed. The next item of correspondence is No. 521B, correspondence date 23 May from Mr. Ray Mitchell from the Health Service Executive, HSE, regarding questions put to the HSE relating to the Grace case and evidence given by the director general. May we note this for the moment as we will be coming back to it? People have it and we will be talking to Mr. O'Brien about that...