Results 14,401-14,420 of 34,777 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It will just be a list of those who have not submitted. It has nothing to do with certifying or laying the accounts. It is just those organisations which have not submitted their accounts to the Comptroller and Auditor General's office. In the first week of May, we will take immediate action. We cannot be writing to State bodies in December telling them to submit their accounts and when...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: In December, the committee agreed, as a result of all the work getting them up to date, to write to the chairman and chief executive of every public body on their statutory obligations on the timely presentations of their accounts. We welcomed the progress made by many organisations in reducing delays, but we are still concerned that some organisations had not yet done so. We thanked those...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: They just acknowledged receipt of the letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Up to 75% of the 260 organisations sent back an acknowledgement. We asked for the contact details of the people to contact and 25% of them did not acknowledge the letter. That does not mean that the 75% in question will meet their timelines. We will be coming back to that in a month's time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it is shocking that they did not acknowledge a letter from the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts. I do not propose we follow that up in the next week or two in terms of using staff time. However, we will follow up in the first week of May. Then, apart from writing a letter to any outstanding ones immediately, we will probably decide to invite the chairmen and chief...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Let the chairman and the chief executive of a body state that here on national television. They will make every effort to make sure they will comply in future. We are not here to issue sanction, but we can achieve results without issuing sanctions. We will come back to that in a month's time. That list is up there. Those are not the people who submitted their accounts. That is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have no response from RTE yet. The invitation has been sent suggesting that date but we have not received a response yet, so it is not confirmed. We will follow up on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The ETBs are not under the HEA. They are under the Department of Education and Skills.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: When it is cleared it goes to the Minister to be published. It might not be before the summer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is in the system.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We need to combine all our education work. We will probably need two days on education.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Give us all of your suggestions and we will come back with a revised schedule.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will not have the Comptroller and Auditor General's report by then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps you will let us know when you send it so the committee can ask the Minister to approve it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will alert him about our meeting and ask him to facilitate the publication prior to that meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will try to help you on that, Deputy. In the last Dáil I was involved with the public expenditure committee. That licence was issued directly by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The regulator was not in situ. The legislation for the regulator being put in place is to monitor the agreement that had been signed before the regulator came into being. Effectively, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The committee will help you follow it up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will follow up on the questions you asked and we will link it back to the original legislation. I am sure that was debated on Committee Stage of the legislation. I would be shocked if it was not. Let us see what the Minister said on the record when the legislation was being passed. It might not have transferred into the licence agreement, but let us tease it out in every way we can.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The old national lottery bumped in an extra €1 million on occasion. A special €1 million was added for those purposes in the old lottery. That was all discussed during the passing of the legislation, so let us see if what was said in the Chamber was implemented.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I agree. As I said, that licence was signed by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the first instance, before the regulator came into being. We will tackle the Department on it because it is the body that signed the licence. We will discuss it with the Department. I do not know how far we will get but we will do our best.