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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...to the Joint Committee on Health. I think we should also send it to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform because the issue is a difficult one. When the minimum wage rises as a result of Government legislation, those who are employing people on the minimum wage expect that the same Government would provide funding to meet that increase. The argument is that the Government is not...

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

Seán Fleming: 761. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the arrangements in relation to collecting money in respect of alleged overpayments to a person (details supplied) will be re-examined in view of the fact that a freedom of information request is currently in the system from the person concerned and that the matter will be dealt with by the person as urgently as possible once this information...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are joined from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General by Ms Colette Drinan, director of audit, and Mr. Shane Carton, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputies Aylward, Cassells and MacSharry. Are the minutes of the meetings of 29 and 30 March 2017 agreed? Agreed. There is nothing specific arising out of the minutes that will not come up on our...

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity of speaking to this motion. I had hoped the debate would be on the NAMA report, but the Minister feels it is all about him. It was not about him at all. It was about NAMA. There are 101 pages in the report and only two paragraphs about the Minister, but he thinks it is all about him. The litany of information the Minister made available was not relevant to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: The first item on the agenda concerns the minutes of 23 March 2017. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. The next item concerns issues arising from the minutes. I have one matter in which members will be interested. Deputy Cullinane contacted the committee on this matter directly as well. Arising from the minutes of the last meeting and the appearance of Mr. Tony O'Brien, chief executive of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: It would be instructive to contact the HSE immediately after this discussion concludes to apprise it of our views and the points made by members. We should first read copies of the original freedom of information request and the correspondence setting out the refusal. Let us examine the documents and decide whether we want to take the matter further. Deputy Farrell is correct, however,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Before this meeting concludes, a communication will be sent to the HSE seeking a response regarding the narrative in respect of the freedom of information request. We will also want to have sight of the original freedom of information request that was made and correspondence setting out the reason for refusing or not granting the request in full. Second, we need an update on the procurement...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, it is important. My experience of submitting freedom of information requests to the Department of Social Protection on various decisions is that there are different freedom of information officers or units in the Department depending on which allowance is involved. We need to know who in the freedom of information section dealt with these requests and if there is one office with overall...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...vii) are correspondence dated 16 March 2017 from Mr. Tony O'Brien in relation to records concerning the meeting on 2 February 2016. That has been circulated. Also circulated yesterday was a copy of the documentation released by the HSE under freedom of information. Both of those items relate to this afternoon's meeting and we will deal specifically with them then. No. 347B is...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: I am just saying, I know our members are very light at this stage, but I question providing information to one requester under freedom of information and not making it available to the public. Just one citizen has got the information and the other 4 million have not. That is keeping something well under wraps. Is Mr. Linehan now telling me that the Minister had this meeting? The Minister...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: ...have said. When they are before the committee next year we will check it out. We will send it back to the two organisations and to the other committee, because it is under the policy area of that committee. Item 152C is a letter from an individual referring to a freedom of information request that was sent to the Committee of Public Accounts. However, neither the clerk nor the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is accompanied by Mr. John Riordan, who is a deputy director of audit. I am now dealing with the agenda. No apologies have been recorded today. Are the minutes of the meetings of 18 and 20 October 2016 agreed? Agreed. I want to raise a point arising from the...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: At this stage, as it is very late in the afternoon, on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I thank all our witnesses from the HSE, the Department of Health, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Comptroller and Auditor General for having participated in the meeting and for the material they supplied to the committee. We will have further meetings with the HSE. Of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Freedom of Information Fees (19 Jan 2016)

Seán Fleming: 94. To ask the Taoiseach the amount his Department has received in fees from freedom of information requests in 2014 and in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45767/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Fees (17 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount his Department has received in fees from freedom of information requests in 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45759/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Fees (17 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount his Department has received in fees from freedom of information requests in 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45764/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Freedom of Information Fees (17 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 211. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount his Department has received in fees from freedom of information requests in 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45762/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Freedom of Information Fees (17 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount his Department has received in fees from freedom of information requests in 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45752/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Freedom of Information Fees (17 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 296. To ask the Minister for Defence the amount his Department has received in fees from freedom of information requests in 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45756/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Freedom of Information Fees (17 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 322. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount her Department has received in fees from freedom of information requests in 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45763/15]