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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...the follow-up questions sent to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Are the minutes agreed to? Agreed. The next item on the agenda is correspondence. The first items, Nos. 2513 and 2525, are correspondence received from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, including briefing documentation and an opening statement for today's meeting. We will...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...to come, but the Department will have all of it. Again on the Vote, paragraph A.33 on page 28 refers to the school meals scheme. The Estimate for school meals provided by the Oireachtas was €54 million, but the outturn was €49 million. The Oireachtas provided €54 million for school meals, which provision is essential. There is a row in most constituencies over...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. I am back to my basic question. A total of €5 million provided by the Oireachtas for school meals for kids who deserve it but, in 2018, they did not get it because a provider, a tender or forms were not in on time. We owe it to them to get that right. How is the scheme looking for this year? Can the Secretary General give me an update on where we are?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...during August, September or the following month. Ms Hynes said earlier that Caranua received an inquiry in the last week or two, so they are still coming in. We have already established that €8 million is probably significantly more than needed to deal with the outstanding cases. At the end of the day, we do not want to find that there are, as the case may be, 200 requests on...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...adequately projected an increase in such activity. I hope the increase in resources the DPC seeks will meet the demand next year and in the following years. We might find that an additional €5 million is sufficient but events might take over and it could be well short of the mark. My advice is that the DPC should be cautious because other public bodies have struggled with...

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...when they are being funded. We know that substantial maintenance payments of €480 per annum are made. Things would be a lot better if local authorities could be given a budget to spend €450 in the maintenance of their housing stock. Perhaps then people would not be as quick to criticise them for not looking after the developments they have built. Part of the problem is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am reading from page 5. In 2018, the HSE gave cash to 27 organisations and the total provided was €73.6 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...scrutiny here. We will have a private meeting this afternoon with David Hall and others specifically on this topic. Our concerns have been well ventilated here. The next notes in this correspondence are 5 and 6, which relate to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, which will be noted and published but we will discuss it in private session. Note 7 is the Exchequer borrowing requirement...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: -----out of a total of €600 million approximately. We are left with half of that sum. That leads me to page 142 on which it is indicated that €27 million went last year to different Departments. Who decides where the money is to be disbursed? Is it by ministerial direction? Who made the decision that the Department of Rural and Community Development was to receive...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is good. I was thrown by the figure of €5 million for legal advice listed on page 164 of the financial statements. On the next page, it states that the fees for legal proceedings was €15.7 million and settlements amounted to €2.83 million. Will somebody please explain the figure for settlements of €2.83 million versus the figure for fees associated with...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ..., I find what is in front of us to be extraordinary. I am only talking about the office equipment and other machinery, not buildings or anything like that. There was a cost valuation of €233 million and depreciation of €221 million. The net value of the assets was €10 million. That is what the balance sheet shows on page 13. It shows the Department had additions...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...interest from journalists and others. The Comptroller and Auditor General included a chapter on this issue in his last report, in which he suggested that the threshold be reduced from €50 million. In our periodic report, we likewise made a detailed recommendation to lower the threshold. The report of the Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners vindicates the work this committee has...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is approximately €4 million to €5 million a year then.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...deal with education for now. We will write back on that basis, asking the Department to have some liaison or monitoring ability in respect of capital acquisitions above a certain figure, be it €5 million or €10 million. We are not talking about small acquisitions.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...trying to be impartial and to show that there was a counter point of view. I have put it on the record and people can judge it accordingly. I am not drawing conclusions. The next item is No. 2155, from the Comptroller and Auditor General, Seamus McCarthy, dated 9 May, providing an update to the committee regarding the submission by public bodies of draft financial statements for audit...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: He states that the figure for the tribunals of inquiry is €341 million, €28 million for commissions of investigation, €82 million for commissions to inquire and €5 million for reports. In 2018, the cost for public tribunals was €8 million, the commissions of investigation cost €4.3 million and the commissions to inquire cost €688,000. The...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Second Stage of what I would call the rainy day fund Bill. I thank my colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath, who proposed this in 2015. It was included as part negotiations of the confidence and supply agreement with Fine Gael in early 2016. I am quite sure that had he not proposed that with the support of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party at...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...it. For people who will read this document when we publish it, I want to highlight the reason Eir gave for withdrawing. That is in this document. The rationale for the State purchase of a €200 million stake in Enet is there. It continues to deal with the broadband plan. We will come back to that because it keeps referring to high-speed broadband. We have asked it to define what...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...and Tusla seems to be 100% on top of the job. We will note and publish the correspondence. The next item of correspondence is 1784 B from Mr. Liam Sloyan, chief executive of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, dated 5 December 2018, providing information requested by the committee on the review of the pricing mechanism for long-term residential care in private and voluntary nursing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...meetings are being held over and will be cleared next week. There are three categories of correspondence, the first of which is category A with briefing documents and opening statements. No. 1745 A from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is dated 23 November. It provides briefing notes for today’s meeting on the various chapters, the outturn figures and...