Results 4,361-4,380 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I thank Deputy Aylward. I will make a number of short points. To follow the immediate point just made, under EU regulations, who has the legal responsibility for animal welfare in Ireland, which I am linking here to hare coursing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Were they hares?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Would Dr. Smyth's Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine have been involved in that, or was it strictly the NPWS?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is because it concerns wildlife.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: There was probably a time when this responsibility was under the remit of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is not at the moment, in any event. Moving on now, tell me the process behind the Preferred Results Limited report, which was presented on 29 September 2017. Mr. Dollard says that it was rejected by the board, which was the real reason it did not go to the Department. It was because the board was not going to stand over it. Am I understanding this correctly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Was this a significant board discussion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am remaining with the Preferred Results Limited report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: That was at that workshop.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Who was at that workshop?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: When was the Preferred Results report commissioned?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Surely the board must have given approval for this document to be drawn up if it was going to cost €130,000. It knew it was in the pipeline. Mr. Dollard is now telling me it was never actually discussed at the board per se. It was discussed at some workshop, somewhere.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Did the board discuss that report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Have we seen the minutes of that discussion or was there much recorded?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Can Mr. Dollard get an extract of these minutes, please, and send them on to the committee? We are seeing this with more and more agencies. Mr Dollard is telling me that much work was done on the strategic plan in September and the autumn of that year. When did the board decide to prepare that strategic plan?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Who were the consultants who were helping to progress that plan, as I expect it was not done in-house by the board itself?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Who were they?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Those parties would have been paid for their work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: What I am trying to get at here is that at the same time as the board had commissioned Preferred Results to do a report, which cost money, it also was paying other people to draw up a strategic plan. Mr. Dollard can see where I am going with this, as I just do not understand how the two are linked. Why were two independent consultancy processes ongoing at the same time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Dollard gets my question.