Results 7,961-7,980 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: For the information of Deputy O'Connell, we have spoken about that matter and agreed to write to the Department of Justice and Equality which is the lead Department for the project for the timetable for its completion. The agencies are only part of the group; the Department of Justice and Equality is taking the lead in dealing with the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank all of the witnesses, including the staff from the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution and the Office of the Chief State Solicitor, for their attendance and the material they have provided for the committee. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General. It is agreed that the clerk will request any follow-up information sought and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the design team will commence work on a school project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5974/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 155. To ask the Minister for Health when a bed will be available for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5973/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 164. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6068/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (5 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 59. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the consultation process on the future of the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5405/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will begin in public session. I am joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Mr. Mark Brady, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Deering. The next item on the agenda are the minutes of the meeting. I want to clear the minutes of the meetings we have had since the beginning...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: What is the number of the note?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will put it up on the screen. The note is on page 8 of the reply.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Do you want someone to contact the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment? We can do that as a follow-up to this specifically.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: EPA representatives would have been here some years ago, perhaps prior to the last election. There was a major clean-up outside Naas. Deputy Murphy knows all about that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: It cost €60 million. A building was on fire for ages and smoke was bellowing into the town. All the costs of that fell back on the taxpayer. It was a private entity.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Do you want to put that on our work programme?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will start on that basis because EPA representatives appeared before the committee periodically to deal with the annual financial statements. Those meetings dealt with governance, enforcement, costs and so on.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: On that basis, we will add the EPA to our work programme. We will come to that shortly as part of our work programme. I addressed this at the previous meeting when I hit on some of those points. There is great information available and I advise people with an interest in it to examine the document. I read out all the headings and topics in the letter the last day and I will not repeat...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: I recommend that members of the public look at the document on the committee website because they will find it educational. We have dealt with that now and we will put the EPA on our work programme. The next item of correspondence received since the previous meeting is No. 1864 from the private secretary of the Secretary General of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Was it hundreds of thousands of euro?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: The recovery is almost zero. It looks more like a bank charge.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: The letter concludes with the director of organisation support and development conveying his apologies again for not having reverted last September. This is because we keep following it up. He states a further update will be provided once the board has a final decision from its insurers regarding the losses incurred. We will note this correspondence. We want a reply or update within three...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have no database of the inspections. It is a shambles. Moreover, we raised the matter at this committee previously. To my knowledge, the legislation requires that an inspection take place. If it has not happened in the previous 12 months, it should happen within the first eight months. The Department has utterly stood down in the implementation of that legislation and has referred to...