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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: No. 2410B is from Mr. Pat Meehan, chief executive, National Oil Reserves Agency, NORA, dated 25 September 2019, replying to our request for an information note on the agency's compliance with the EU's oil stocks directive. We were referring to the Brexit situation. It gives an indication of how much oil is held in the State. When we wrote to the agency, two thirds was in the State and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...just have to wait, if there are criminal proceedings, for them to take their course. GSOC confirms that criminal proceedings are being investigated in this case. We note and publish that. The next item of correspondence is from, Mr. Pat Smyth, interim CEO of Tusla, dated 12 September, providing clarification requested by the committee in relation to the remuneration of staff employed...

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: ...of human resources and organisational development; and from the State Claims Agency, Mr. Ciarán Breen, director, Ms Catherine Tarrant, executive head of claims, clinical indemnity scheme, and Mr. Pat Kirwin, deputy director and head of enterprise risk. We are also joined by Mr. Eoin Dorgan, principal officer of the Department of Finance. I remind members, witnesses and those in the...

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: ...40 - Children and Youth Affairs. We are joined by Dr. Fergal Lynch, Secretary General; Ms Bernie McNally; Ms Éimear Fisher; Mr. Gerard Hughes; and Ms Olive McGovern. We are also joined by Mr. Pat Smyth, interim chief executive of Tusla, and Ms Judith Brady, principal officer in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I apologise for the late start; our meeting this morning...

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

Seán Fleming: ...the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. He is joined by Ms Niamh Donegan, senior auditor. Apologies have been received from Deputies Pat Deering and David Cullinane. Are the minutes of 4 April 2019 agreed? Agreed. There are no matters arising. We shall proceed to correspondence. There are three categories. Category A...

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

Seán Fleming: ...and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. He is joined by Mr. Mark Brady, the deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. I propose we postpone dealing with the business of the committee and meet directly with the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. As people are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...Tina Donaghy, Mr. John Hannigan and Ms Karen Murphy. From the approved housing body interim regulatory committee we are joined by Dr. Mary Lee Rhodes and she is accompanied by Ms Susanna Lyons and Mr. Pat Fitzpatrick. I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery that all mobile phones must be switched off entirely. That means putting them on airplane mode, as merely putting...

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

Seán Fleming: ...General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Mr. Ciaran Wright, senior auditor. Apologies have been received from Deputies Shane Cassells and Pat Deering. Last week we did not approve the minutes of the meeting of 8 November as there was one slight change to be made to the wording. Are the minutes of that meeting agreed to? Agreed. Are...

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

Seán Fleming: ...report into governance arrangements in respect of section 38 and section 39 organisations. It is expected that we will be given a copy of this report in January. The next item is 1782 B from Mr. Pat Smyth, interim CEO of Tusla, dated 4 December 2018, providing information requested by the committee on procedures to secure service level agreements and the memorandum of understanding on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...I propose that we use a relatively short period to deal with correspondence and then proceed to our engagement with the HSE and the Department of Health. We have received apologies from Deputies Pat Deering and Alan Kelly. We are holding over the minutes and will come back to them shortly. The next item I want to get clearance from the committee in connection with is No. 3, a motion on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ms Mahin Fitzpatrick, senior auditor. We will meet the Revenue Commissioners today and a number of chapters in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General relate to Revenue. We will also have a private meeting in the afternoon. I suggest,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Georgina O'Mahoney, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. We are holding over the minutes to a further meeting and moving on to the next item, correspondence. There are three categories of correspondence. Category A is briefing documents and...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...;2.4 billion. We need to know why the figure is so large and what is being done to ensure the liability is controlled. From the State Claims Agency we are joined by Mr. Ciarán Breen, director; Mr. Pat Kirwan, Ms Jenny Foley and Ms Anne Duffy. From the Department of Health we are joined by Ms Mary Jackson, principal officer, and Ms Patsy Carr. From the HSE we are joined by Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is the main subject of the meeting for the rest of the day. No. 1675 B is correspondence received from Mr. Pat Haran, clerk to the Joint Committee on Health dated 19 October 2018, regarding the report undertaken by Dr. Scally in relation to the CervicalCheck screening programme. We will note and publish this. This is an effort to ensure the work of the Joint Committee on Health, which...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...Mr. Maurice Coughlan, finance officer. We are joined from the Housing Agency by: Mr. John O'Connor, chief executive; Mr. David Silke, director of research; Ms Margaret Jordan, head of finance; and Mr. Pat Fitzpatrick, senior executive officer. Please note that we have scheduled a second meeting on this topic for 22 November and we will deal with the housing assistance payment, HAP,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ms Josephine Mooney, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. We will hold over the minutes until the next meeting and matters arising. The next item on the agenda is correspondence received since the last meeting. There are three categories...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy as the permanent witness to the committee. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. The minutes of the meeting of 20 September have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed. There is a small change to be made to the minutes of the meeting of Tuesday, 25 September, which we will clear next week. There...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ms Maureen Mulligan, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. We will take the business of the committee as normal on Thursday next. Today we will be dealing with the 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined today by Ms Georgina O'Mahoney, deputy director of audit. We have received apologies from Deputy Pat Deering. We have received at least 80 items of correspondence, which is considerable, so I hope the committee can agree on them. I sent out a draft timetable indicating that we would deal with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ruth Foley, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. We are dealing with the Department of Health and the HSE under the Department of Health appropriation accounts, Vote 38 for 2016 and the HSE financial statements 2017. However, the...