Results 10,321-10,340 of 34,729 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Some 13 items have been identified that did not meet procurement requirements and the amount of money involved was over €100,000 in each case. The report details the actions at the end of it. The covering letter says it is attaching the request to the Excel format together with background explanation details as furnished to the Comptroller and Auditor General and that it is styled as...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to that because there is quite a bit of information there and we will not delay this morning's meeting with it. No. 1673 B is correspondence received from Jackie Maguire, chairperson of the County and City Management Association, CCMA, dated 22 October 2018, which has declined our invitation to attend today’s meeting on a voluntary basis to assist us in our...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: The chief executives of the local authorities would not have any regulatory or supervisory role with the approved housing bodies. They go to the Department directly. Their documents have to be approved, and shown to be consistent, by the local authority but the gap in the regulation of the approved housing bodies is in legislation. There is a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: They are doing it on a voluntary basis.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Exactly. We will write back to CCMA because we need the CEOs, as very senior public servants who have a key role in delivering houses, to assist the Oireachtas. One would expect that they would see the merit in that. We accept that legally they are not under the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts but just because they are not legally obliged to come in here is no reason they cannot...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is the main subject of the meeting for the rest of the day. No. 1675 B is correspondence received from Mr. Pat Haran, clerk to the Joint Committee on Health dated 19 October 2018, regarding the report undertaken by Dr. Scally in relation to the CervicalCheck screening programme. We will note and publish this. This is an effort to ensure the work of the Joint Committee on Health, which...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write again to get that. No. 1669 C is correspondence received from Deputy Catherine Murphy dated 19 October 2018, regarding the extension of the contract for the maintenance of the metropolitan area network by Enet. Would the Deputy like to comment on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: In the meantime, will we ask for a detailed note from the Department on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Who is Enet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: How does the Deputy want us to proceed? Does she want us to do anything in the meantime, like include it on the work programme as part of our examination of broadband?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will include it as part of our work programme under the broadband topic which we will be dealing with soon. That completes the correspondence to be considered today. Three financial statements and accounts have been received since the last meeting. All three, from An Bord Iascaigh Mhara, An Bord Bia and the Heritage Fund, received clear audit reports. The financial statements and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is €200,000 available?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay, I understand. Finally, we will hold over our discussions on the work programme until the next meeting. There is nothing new in it and we know what we are doing for the next while.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are scheduling a time for that. We have written to him and are expecting that it will happen immediately after the recess.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Actually, it is on the programme that I have in front of me. We are proposing to deal with it on 15 November. We have a date scheduled.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: What I am suggesting is that we hold over our discussion on the work programme until the next meeting because we have witnesses waiting to come in. We can discuss the timetable at our next meeting. We have not done any advance work on it and only have a timetable laid out for the next few weeks. I am quite happy to come back to that issue in the context of the work programme. We will make...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Our meeting will focus on matters relating to the achievements of targets and value for money achieved in regard to housing supply and delivery. We will be dealing with the following: the Appropriation Accounts 2017; Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government; the 2017 financial statements of the Housing Agency; and chapter 10 of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2017 report, funding...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy and I call Mr. O'Connor to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. O'Connor. I would like to ask Mr. McCarthy a straightforward question before I call the opening speaker. He rightly said in his opening statement that "delivery [of housing] can only be accelerated by local authorities, the Housing Agency and AHBs working in partnership." Will he give me a report on the most recent meeting that would have taken place, having been called by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: How many representatives of the CCMA were present, approximately?