Results 81-100 of 278 for going forward speaker:Seán Fleming

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

Seán Fleming: ...in the former employee who wrote the report. This is on our work programme. We will deal with the matter as soon as we set a date. The next correspondence is No. 1697 C from an individual, forwarded to the committee, regarding a value for money query relating to the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, SBCI. The bank is audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General and I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Creation (14 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...front. They also fare better when it comes to investment and site visits. However, I appreciate and acknowledge the increase in site visits this year. IDA Ireland needs to step it up and keep it going. It is in their minds and I look forward to the chief executives of IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland coming back to Laois, as they committed to do, in the coming spring. I will work...

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

Seán Fleming: ...are operating within procurement guidelines in the case of these two companies and the committee to look at the procurement process. I propose, in the first instance, with his permission, that we forward the Deputy's correspondence to the HSE and seek a full response on the matters raised. When we receive it, we can decide on how to proceed. We will ask for a response and take it from...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Finance Bill 2018. It is important that we have a good discussion on this significant legislation which runs to 149 pages. I will generally talk about the budget as that is what the Finance Bill is based on. However, there is a lot of small print in the Finance Bill which I hope will receive detailed scrutiny at Committee Stage. This is merely an...

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

Seán Fleming: ...agreed to publish it. We have not come to it but we will in a moment. It is in the correspondence list. I do not think that was the one list. We will deal with it in a moment. The next category is B - correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow-up to Committee of Public Accounts meetings and other items for publishing. A number of items were held over from...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Collection of Pension Contributions due to the Exchequer
Chapter 3 - Control of Funding for Voted Public Services
Chapter 5 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 99: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 100: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2016 (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...Accounts, I wish to state that that is no way to do business. Most draft Estimates for next year have been published. Six months are being lost. The budget used to be in December but was brought forward to October under EU guidelines. That gave the Oireachtas the opportunity to pass the Estimates for 2019 before the end of 2018. I do not know of any organisation worth its salt that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: In fairness, we are fairly thorough. If we are not happy, we do not let much go once we receive the information in writing. However, because of its sheer volume, it has us snowed under. The point has been well made. We need to discuss it one of the days in private session. The next item is No. 1538, correspondence received from Mr. Ray Mitchell, providing further information. No....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...the correspondence last week and will come back to the matter as part of our work programme. Mr. Mitchell has provided very extensive and comprehensive information which will take some time to go through. When we come back to the issues, the correspondence will form part of our work programme. We also held over No. 1538B, correspondence received from Mr. Mitchell, providing follow-up...

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

Seán Fleming: ...before he actually leaves the building. The next item of correspondence is No. 1562. We noted No. 1561, which I have just read out and published. No. 1562 is from Ms Clare Campbell of the Government accounting unit in relation to the OECD meeting which I attended yesterday on behalf of the committee. We note and publish that. The following item is No. 1584 from Mr. Paul McGowan,...

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

Seán Fleming: ...advice and took it up with us, but the personal information should not have been sent to us, which is why we are not circulating it. No. 1521 is from Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice, dated 14 August, forwarding correspondence requesting the committee to make an inquiry with the HSE regarding charges for medical care. The correspondence has not been circulated because there are some libel...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes, exactly. That is going to the Commission for Energy Regulation, including the report it attached to that email to us. Nos. 1440C and 1441C were held over from the previous meeting. They relate to HSE circulars not circulated or implemented and HSE employees who did not make the criteria in the first round of the regularisation process of the Haddington Road agreement. We noted both...

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...there is no great system even to learn from that loss. The lessons have not been learned across the public sector as a result of the loss of €700,000 in DIT. Mr. Deane says this is related to Government accounting procedures and not a matter of procurement but I am at a loss to know who needs to learn lessons from this. Mr. McCarthy is telling us there is €11 million...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...legislation to provide for a voluntary approach to open disclosure has been enacted following the passage of the Civil Liability (Amendment) Act 2017 and regulations flowing from it are due to be brought forward shortly.” The Secretary General's said here today, “This legislation has since been enacted, following the passage of the Civil Liability (Amendment) Act 2017, and...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...issue of open disclosure. Mr. Gleeson relies mainly on his belief that there was a policy of open disclosure which he assumed everyone was following and he had no reason to believe otherwise. I go back to the first letter I read out today - to the last paragraph of that letter from the HSE to us on 8 February. It is a full eight pages on open disclosure and where we are from the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...investment by the State in privately or charitably owned institutions. We requested this information following correspondence on Clonkeen College's school playing fields. I propose we note and forward a copy to the individual who raised the matter with the committee. Is that agreed? Agreed. Correspondence No. 1254, from John McDaid, the chief executive of the Legal Aid Board,...

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

Seán Fleming: ...last year, a commitment was given that the post-project reviews would be published and it was being worked on. Six months elapsed and the Department was here last Thursday. We asked when was that going to happen. As a result, a circular, dated 26 March, has been issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to all Departments since our meeting last Thursday. We have had an...

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

Seán Fleming: ...and Gaeltacht Affairs later. We are scheduled to meet the Department of Finance on 19 April. In the context of our discussion to consolidate some of our work, I would suggest that we try to bring forward the meeting scheduled for 28 June with the Tax Appeals Commission and the Revenue Commissioners on outstanding issues. As per the schedule, we are due to meet the Tax Appeals Commission...

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

Seán Fleming: Having reviewed the correspondence, it essentially concerns a legal dispute. The individual has forwarded a number of solicitors' letters in which a number of allegations are made. If he believes the allegations, he should pursue the matter further through the courts. If he believes there are criminal actions, he should report them to the Garda. That is not our function. For our part and...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...are now talking about "repeal and replace" as the approach as it is not a question of delete versus retain. That may have been the view of the Oireachtas committee but it is not the view of the Government in terms of what it has brought forward here. Article 40.3.3° reads, "The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...on the issue in the past week or so. I tabled one last night and one on 13 February. I asked for a breakdown of the tax credit based on different bands of tax payment by various companies. I got some information in one reply and more in another on the number of people involved. It was 1,535 companies for 2015 and 1,486 companies were able to claim R&D tax credit in 2016. The range...