Results 7,161-7,180 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have recently received letters from the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality asking us to look at matters. We have heard from the Joint Committee on Health. I am making it clear, as Chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts, that each of those committees had an opportunity to deal with these issues long before they ever came before the Committee on Public Accounts. They deal with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: To be very clear, we are going to deal with the work programme shortly and will definitely discuss that aspect as part of it. The correspondence is noted and will be published. We have decided on the appropriate action to be taken. Item No. 1990, correspondence received from the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, and item No. 1991, correspondence received from the Committee on Finance,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Might it be significant in terms of a draw on resources in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will note and publish the schedule also.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: For the purposes of clarification, the National Standards Authority of Ireland and the Residential Tenancies Board have agreed to make the repayments, but the amounts have not yet been finalised. The Dental Council of Ireland has not yet finalised its agreement - I think of all the orthodontic treatment being provided - while the Health Products Regulatory Authority has agreed to remit an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The clients are the landlords who must register with the RTB which is in part State funded and in part privately funded.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. They just have to find it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: They do not specifically have to go one by one. It might be helpful to members if I indicated the scale of the moneys to which we are referring. The lowest amount I can see on the list is for the Teaching Council of Ireland, for which the figure is €60,000, whereas the Commission for Communications Regulation had to make arrears payments totalling €1.13 million. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Would the Deputy like the committee to write to each of the four organisations to ask what its plans are, what the implications are and proposals it has to deal with the issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to each of the boards. Is that okay?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will not just leave it at that. We will follow through and write to the four groups mentioned in the schedule about the issue. I thank the Deputy for following through on the point. Item No. 1969 is correspondence sent to An Garda Síochána by the organisation Former Local Authority Members Éire, FLAME, about the winding up of the Association of Municipal Authorities of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. I have not seen that letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am advised that the secretariat, on receipt of the letter, followed it up directly with the Higher Education Authority, HEA. I am told the report is almost finalised. Next week, we will formally give a deadline of two weeks to have it on our desk.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to CIT and say we want the report. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We got the full list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We got the full list and list of subsidiaries, all of which are consolidated into the financial statements that we get. None of them stands outside. We will come back to the issue when discussing our work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we will do so in a moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Next, we will discuss the accounts received since the last meeting and then we will go on to the work programme. We had the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities, which got a clear audit opinion. Athlone Institute of Technology got a clear audit opinion. Blanchardstown Institute of Technology got a clear audit opinion. The national Economic and Social Development Office got a clear...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay, that is good to hear. Tote Ireland Limited got a clear audit opinion. Tote Arena Limited got a clear audit opinion. Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Limited got a clear audit opinion. HRI Racecourses Limited, which is an investment holding company, it is not trading and with no turnover, got a clear audit opinion. Fairyhouse Club Limited got a clear audit opinion. Leopardstown Club...