Results 61-80 of 278 for going forward speaker:Seán Fleming

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

Seán Fleming: ...Board. We requested that because the fund was on the list of bodies which were late in submitting their accounts. The letter states that legislation to dissolve the board is currently going through the Oireachtas and is expected to be passed later this year. The organisation is being wound down and that is why we did not receive the accounts. I am sure Mr. McCarthy will, in due course,...

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

Seán Fleming: ...the Department was willing to come in and talk about that. Kieran Wallace, I think, was due to come before the committee as well. However, the initiation of court proceedings stopped the meeting from going ahead. One could argue that the reason we do not have the level of scrutiny at the Committee of Public Accounts is the court case. The Department said it was most anxious to come in,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...it has accepted that completely. The Department says that, due to other pressures, it did not have the resources available to support the implementation of the legislation. That is dreadful. It goes on to say that the Department undertook a comprehensive analysis of the public service bodies to be included in the legislation in 2018, which was two years after the legislation was passed....

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

Seán Fleming: This is not within our remit. The individual can take that up with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, if he chooses to. We will so advise the individual. We are not going there. Correspondence No. 2223C from an individual relates to the financial viability of wind farms in Ireland. This matter is not within the remit of the committee. Is it agreed that we forward...

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

Seán Fleming: ...the minutes of the meeting of 16 May. Are they agreed? Agreed. On matters arising, everything that we might want to discuss will come up during the course of the meeting. There are three categories of correspondence. Category A deals with briefing material and opening statements. Nos. 2187 and 2190 from Mr. Derek Moran, Secretary General at the Department of Finance, are the...

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

Seán Fleming: ...financial statements within a reasonable time period. If they are not able to do that, I would question what else might not be working properly in the system. When we took over a couple of years ago, the percentage of financial statements which had been submitted within a three-year period year stood at about 40%. We have been following this issue relentlessly and we had the education...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...shortly to outline the situation but the position is that we had a briefing note on the previous day which we noted and discussed. The report was entitled The New Children's Hospital Programme: Options Going Forward. In November 2018, to support the decision-making process for the next stage of the national children's hospital capital development project, the HSE, at the request of the...

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

Seán Fleming: ...if large cases that were before the Tax Appeals Commission have since been closed then it saves work for the Tax Appeals Commission if it does not have to deal with them. That in its own right is good. In light of that we will ask the commission to give us an estimate of the value of the cases currently remaining. We were speaking of €1.6 billion figure at one stage with a...

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

Seán Fleming: We will ask also for a list of other advisers who were part of the document, "The New Children's Hospital Programme: Options for Going Forward". We want an emailed answer to that before the meeting is concluded today. The HSE knows the answer and can reply within an hour. There will be phone calls from lots of people seeking that answer and we want it in writing here today. We will check...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...to us to decide whether we have further questions to ask. We have noted and published it, but we need to discuss it. We will make a point of discussing it and make sure, when the documentation is going out, that members are aware that it will be up for discussion the next day. The next item is No. 2078B from Ms Maria Browne, Chief State Solicitor, dated 29 March, providing a breakdown of...

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

Seán Fleming: ...she provides information on the election observation roster that was also sent to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence. We will note and publish this. I propose that we forward it to the individual who raised related matters with the committee. However, we agreed previously that the matter was closed and are forwarding the item for information purposes only....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...2019, we will discuss the oversight and implementation of capital projects. Officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will appear before the committee in the morning. We are going to deal with the role of public officials in capital projects, not just in the context of the national children's hospital. We will have a private meeting next week to complete our...

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

Seán Fleming: ...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 that...

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

Seán Fleming: .... The Department refutes the allegations which are being investigated by the European Commission and provides details of the Department's position. We will note and publish the correspondence and forward it to the person who wrote to us directly about the matter. No. 1806 is correspondence received from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, providing information...

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

Seán Fleming: ...answer. Depending on the answer we get, we may need to bring them in. As of now, we are asking the others to come in on that. On 7 February we want to deal with all the different Votes that go before the Oireachtas and the group of Votes for the Department of An Taoiseach. There are six of them there and there are Accounting Officers in most of those separate areas. I propose that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...all well and good to say that this is being looked at by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, to ask how long is a piece of string and to ask if it will ever happen, who will be covered going forward and so on. I am talking about current serving officers who have been injured at work and cannot continue to work. They do not want to be retired on the grounds of ill health...

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

Seán Fleming: ...teasing out the issues here is probably helpful to the process. I ask the HSE please to listen to what is being said here this morning because we were told these matters should not have to go to court. If there are issues with the details of a protocol, I ask the HSE to try to sort them out without going to the High Court if at all possible. I think we would be unanimous on this if it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Seán Fleming: I know but we are not letting it go. We will come back to this. A letter is going out on the issue on which we will follow up. Correspondence No. 1767 B is from the clerk to the Committee on Procedure, dated 30 November 2018, forwarding a complaint on matters raised by the committee in advance of the recent presidential election. The complainant believes the committee raised the matter...

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

Seán Fleming: ...Mooney, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Kate O'Connell. The minutes of previous 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...

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

Seán Fleming: It will be in the new year as there is only a fortnight of the session left. We will go through our work programme for the new year next week and try to sign off on priorities from the committee's point of view and the sequence in which we want to deal with them. That is noted and published. Sorry, it is not. The letter was from an individual and we can discuss it in the context of the...