Results 8,481-8,500 of 34,664 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: As a second request, we could ask about the multiple suppliers. Many items have been combined to reach €2 million. We will ask that the OPW provides us with a breakdown of any individual company that received over €50,000. That should not be too difficult; there cannot be too many of them. We will ask the OPW for the information requested by Deputy Catherine Murphy. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Only the Secretary General of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport is accountable to us on this. I presume we could consider writing to seek confirmation from the Department regarding payments to the sporting organisation concerned, the GAA, and that it is satisfied that the moneys it has allocated from public funds have been properly accounted for. We cannot get involved with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Should we write to the Department or to Sport Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am an officer in the GAA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Or if there was any basis to any of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Will we send a copy of this correspondence to the Accounting Officer and ask him to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Should it be from us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is to show him to what we are referring. The committee will write to the Accounting Officer of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport enclosing this correspondence for his information, so he knows the context and the reason, and asking him to outline the processes and procedures in place with regard to granting money directly from the Department's sports capital grant programme or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Once we get that, we can consider the matter further. We will write to that person. No. 1804C is correspondence from an individual making observations regarding cases that have been before the courts recently and an EU directive that apparently prevents police from using historical telephone records. I propose to note this item. The Committee of Public Accounts is not getting into that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Grand. I gave a commitment that I, as Chairman, would arrange to meet him in the new year. We are not proposing that the person meet the full committee. We will put that arrangement in place. No. 1823C is from Professor Mey in the University of Limerick providing information regarding an in-house psychiatrist at the University of Limerick. We will note that. It is not for publication....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: He directed the committee not to examine another matter last summer but we did not pay much heed to him.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is the figure today. The Deputy has requested that the chairman and chief executive of the boards appear before the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: What is the role of Mr. Sullivan?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will get that information from the health committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will invite representatives of all four layers to appear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the OPW. Would it be better to write to the Accounting Officer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the OPW and the Clerk of the Dáil for an update.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: That will be dealt with by correspondence. I wish to complete the brief discussion on the work programme. We have provisionally suggested that the paediatric hospital board appear on 31 January.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Seán Fleming: Does the National Development Finance Agency a role in that regard? I thought it examined all Government capital projects involving contracts costing more than €20 million.