Results 4,061-4,080 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Finance is managing that case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I suspect the Deputy will be able to put that question to the Data Protection Commissioner when she appears before us shortly. It could be a data protection issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will raise it with the Data Protection Commissioner.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we will ask for it but we will also raise the matter with the Data Protection Commissioner because it could be a data protection issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will finish the correspondence under section B and hold over the items under section C.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will note and publish it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will conclude this part of the meeting at 10.30 a.m. No. 2346 is from Mr. Ciaran Dooly, Central Statistics Office, regarding various information we asked for about staffing numbers when he was before us in April, which we will note and publish. No. 2347 is from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, providing further information regarding the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We need to trace it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: With speeding fines, where does the money go?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: There is no incentive for the Garda to spend its time collecting money that goes into the central Exchequer. That is something we will come back to. I am not suggesting debt collectors, because that was raised. The point is that, in some regions people, even when they are handed down fines in court, ignore them and the fines are never paid, collected or followed up. That is another...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We had confirmation from the Department of Health a moment ago that there were 16,000 whole-time equivalent agency staff in the HSE right throughout last year. That could involve 40,000 staff at different stages during the year but, in breaking it down to whole-time equivalents, there were 16,000 whole-time equivalent agency staff. It is a significant proportion. It is the same point...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Buckley stated that the meeting between OPW and the owner of the building, Miesian Plaza, is scheduled for early October.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: The meeting is happening in early October. We will give them a few weeks after the meeting to give us a report of the meeting. It has not happened yet. We will note and publish that. The next item is No. 2402 from Mr. John Uhlemann, Department of Finance, on the national finance accounts, copies of which have now been made available to us. The next item, No. 2403, is from Mr. John...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have mentioned the one item of correspondence which I want to deal with. It is No. 2352C from Brian Lynch and Associates, dated 19 July 2019, requesting the committee make inquiries to the Comptroller and Auditor General about the special report of 2017 regarding the provision of school transport. The matters related to the accounts of Bus Éireann, which are not examined by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy has written his report and is not proposing to add anything further.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: There is a request which we will note and discuss but I cannot publish it without his consent. The Data Protection Commission will attend in the afternoon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General has given his definitive answer and that concludes this. It is now on the public record.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the correspondent and ask if he wants to do that. We will not automatically do it without being requested.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: His request is specific to the Comptroller and Auditor General because he had a special report on the cost of school transport, and he had been following this committee.