Results 28,981-29,000 of 34,885 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: The meetings in January of the boards will be about compliance, which is the broader issue, as Mr. O'Brien said. However, I am trying to narrow it down to the specifics of the internal audit report. I am afraid - the public is rightly afraid - that we will eventually walk away and will be here in February talking about broad compliance statements. In the meantime we will not have verified...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: They will have had from last March to the end of next January to put forward a business case to justify a top-up payment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: They will have had October, November, December and January - four months - in which to make a business case for the top-up payments. How many months will it take the HSE to verify and adjudicate on the matter? Who will determine who is right? The bodies will have their view and the HSE will have its view. Who will make the call?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee. I have a few specific questions. In March 2013, nine months ago, the internal audit report was produced, which dealt with the 44 organisations. I am aware that the witnesses have various letters in respect of compliance, warning letters, suggestions and meetings which have taken place in the meantime but, from the HSE perspective,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: Of the 44 organisations identified nine months ago, how many has the HSE verified as being compliant? I am not talking about letters from the organisations stating that they believe they are compliant. It is a great audit report, as I said the last day. When we get a good report the issue is how well it is followed through. This is nine months afterwards. Of the 44 organisations, how...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: So Mr. O'Brien is saying after nine months that in a report into 44 organisations the HSE can verify that eight are compliant. At the rate of one per month, do we have to wait 32 months to get to the end of the 44 organisations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: That has been the progress to date.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: How many?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: St. Vincent's Hospital is a classic example.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: After nine months, eight organisations have been identified as being compliant. We are not even 20% of the way to verifying compliance in respect of 48. I will not go back to the report in respect of the timescale, when certain things were to be verified in different months and at different dates. I am aware the report came into the public arena a couple of weeks ago. Between March and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: Ms Day and Ms Piggot have clarified matters. Do superannuation deductions for Mater hospital staff go into that fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: Effectively, the Mater is a conduit between the Department of Health and the CRC. If there is a shortfall in the pension scheme, it will be picked up by the HSE and, essentially, the taxpayer. These employees are getting the benefit of public service pension arrangements even though they have a fixed contribution scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: It is beginning to seem that Mr. Kiely’s statement that there was a fee involved is not accurate. He should be given the opportunity to correct the record. This statement did damage to the Mater, the CRC and the fundraising activities of all charities. I take grave exception to someone throwing a comment such as this at this committee which caused much collateral damage. The record...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: On what page is subhead B5?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned No. 4.5, which is Horse Racing Ireland. The annual report and accounts have been submitted. We said when we had the 2012 annual accounts we would see about setting a date for Horse Racing Ireland to come in. I am surprised there is a note on the audit outcome in the summary sheet we got today that attention is drawn to a number of instances of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: In today's meeting are we dealing with the section 38 agencies or the Vote on the Department of Health and the HSE? What are we doing today?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: We are not dealing with the broader Vote.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: When I saw that on the agenda I wondered if it was the broader issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: On that issue, there is a long-standing agreement to have representatives of Horse Racing Ireland attend the committee. There is considerable correspondence on this organisation which I hope will be dealt with when its representatives attend the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: I understood the chief executive, who has since retired, had indicated he would come before the committee in a couple of weeks.