Results 7,761-7,780 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. He was a director since 2 August 2013. The hospital board and the Government contracts committee, of which the Office of Government Procurement provides the chair and secretary, commenced discussions on the matter in May 2014.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It was a ministerial appointment, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will make one observation of which I want people to take account for a moment. We need to invite the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the management and control of major capital projects, including the children's hospital. If we write to him specifically on the children's hospital, he is utterly within his rights to say he is not the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Otherwise, he would refuse to attend this committee as he is not the Accounting Officer for that project. He has a broader responsibility and I think that is the invitation we have to extend. He should not refuse that invitation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That he had a fiduciary duty as a director.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. There is a liaison officer between the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Health, who often sits here during meetings. There will be two lines of contact.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Have we got them or are they held by the health committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not think we got them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have done that, in writing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will seek clarification on these things and maybe the Comptroller and Auditor General can give that. All the circulars are out there but there is company law governing the responsibility of a director to do his or her fiduciary duty to the board of which they are a member. Does the companies legislation supersede the circulars on the role of a director? Maybe this means half of these...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Those circulars are a waste of space.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. That is good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: A person's duty to the board was referred to last week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Who is the best person to help the committee with a summary of this point? Would the Comptroller and Auditor General be able to do it? I assume it is relevant to his audit process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask that you circulate it to members as soon as is practicable in the coming days. I was confused about that role within a company. We have covered the point for the moment and I do not want to go into the nitty-gritty of it now. At our last meeting we cleared, noted and agreed the minutes of the meetings of 17 January, 22 January and 24 January. The meeting of 17 January was with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, when we receive the terms of reference, we intend to consider whether they will lead to the publication of a report or whether they will be written in such a way that it may not be possible to issue a report, and that is important.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: In summary, if the terms of reference have been made available, we want to obtain them by lunchtime. Otherwise, we should be told. The HSE has committed to reverting to the committee on the matter, after which we can discuss it later in the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is referring to No. 1918, from Ms Rhonda Evans of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, which provides a note on the children's hospital costs and the list of independent and corporate reports. It is to be noted and published. The Deputy is right that there should be clarification. On the Linesight report, there is no outline of the cost attached to the schedule...