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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am sorry to interrupt but we must move on to Deputy Kelly now. The sequence for speakers is as follows: Deputies Kelly, Madigan, Catherine Murphy, Connolly, Cassells and McDonald. There will be a second opportunity to pose questions if members stick to the time allocated.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Head of which legal?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Not the Department. Garda legal.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are moving on.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: For the sake of clarity, the documentation is coming on foot of a formal request from the Chair. It was not a request from an individual member.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: While on that, it is a total mystery as to why the Valuation Office and Ordnance Survey Ireland has come into the Department of Justice and Equality.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Syrians and others have come in and have been accommodated in recent times. Is it Syrians who come in?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Under what category do they fall? They are not categorised as refugees? Where do they come into this equation of accommodation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: How did they fit into this accommodation system or is it separate again?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: What is that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: How many have come through that process into Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Where are they accommodated? We hear about Ballaghaderreen and Monasterevin.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Waters sends us a detailed note separately on this new group that was not there in 2015? It was not a principal item for today. I apologise to Deputy Madigan.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I thought the one in the Montague Hotel in Portlaoise is run by a company that runs one in Bray or somewhere in Wicklow. I would merely make that observation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay. Maybe they had one.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Mary Lou McDonald is the next speaker. As it is 5p.m., she will be the last speaker.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 138. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the arrangements in place between his Department and the Revenue Commissioners in respect of businesses and non-registered businesses including partnerships and sole traders with debts due to the Social Insurance Fund; the protocols in place to allow his Department contact these companies to collect this debt; the amount collected from these...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 139. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money due from companies or businesses with a debt due to the Social Insurance Fund; the whole-time-equivalent persons and their grades involved in the recovery and repayment of these debts; the amount paid out by this fund for the past three years; the repayments to this fund in the past three years; the number of persons involved...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (11 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 140. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of full-time equivalent staff and their grades of persons involved in the collection or recovery of overpayments to persons that received them from his Department; the total amount of outstanding money; the number of arrangements in place for the repayment or recovery of these amounts; the value of these arrangements; the number of...